Every day, Work Opportunities Unlimited (WOU) serves its mission of helping people with barriers to employment find meaningful and fulfilling jobs. With WOU’s support Scott Herard has remained successfully employed as a cashier at The Home Depot for 6 years! Scott began receiving employment services with WOU in July 2014, with the goal of securing [...]
Keith at the office! In June of 2017 we published an inspirational success story and video about Keith Grieser. When Keith graduated from high school, he was bound and determined that he was going to live as independent a life as possible. Central to his plan was finding a job. Not only did [...]
Barry shared a common goal with many of WOU’s clients and, for that matter, with the majority of the world. He wanted to be independent. While independence means different things to different people, in Barry’s case, he simply wanted to earn his own money through meaningful employment. Though he faced challenges that prevented him from [...]
(West Palm Beach, FL)- Kristen Giordano of Boynton Beach, has been presented with the Success at Work award from Work Opportunities Unlimited. The “Success-at-Work” award, which began in 2000, periodically honors and recognizes team members who have delivered outstanding service to our clients consistent with the Company’s core values. Founded upon the principle that all people can [...]
If you took a glance at Mary Northrup’s resume, you might wonder how she ended up at Work Opportunities Unlimited (WOU). After all, she had a long and successful career as a general manager in the weight loss/nutrition industry, which is a far cry from helping people with barriers obtain meaningful employment. Dig a little [...]
(Palm Beach County, FL) – Sometimes in life, you know a good thing when you’ve got it, and you’ll go the distance to hold onto it. Danny Goldstein of Boca Raton was that special “good thing” for the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) at Florida Atlantic University. Danny had searched for more than [...]
Carlann Czecha, or “Carla” as she’s known, is a CRS/Job Coach in WOU’s Montgomery County, Maryland region who is retiring in late December 2019 after nearly twenty years in the industry. For this passionate person whose life until this point has been centered around work and family, retirement is bittersweet. On one hand, she’ll now [...]
