Family Promise and Career Connect share success story
Stuart/Martin County Chamber of Commerce new Career Connect program and Family Promise of Martin County are a match made in heaven.
In January of 2022, the Chamber launched Career Connect Martin. The program supports both job seekers and employers: potential employees learn new skills and potential employers are introduced to non-traditional pipelines.
After a stunning success rate its first year, the Martin Chamber Foundation was established in May, 2023 to ensure that future funding for Career Connect Martin is secure.
With its template that provides residents who live in underserved areas of Martin County the opportunity for individualized job training and programs that will help them secure employment, the organization is a perfect collaborating partner for Family Promise of Martin County.
The mission of Family Promise of Martin County, a non-profit, interfaith hospitality network, is to provide temporary shelter, housing, caring support, meals and a host of social services for working families with children experiencing homelessness. Of course, stable employment is the glue that holds these other parts together. Family Promise offers training and provides guidance and contacts to help the families it serves as they navigate that search.
Recently, the first success story from the Career Connect Martin/Family Promise partnership was announced. Unique, a Family Promise client and single mom who is extremely motivated to be successful in a career, started a job as a trial employee at Guaranteed Garage Repair in Stuart. After overcoming that hurdle, she is now working full-time as an administrative assistant, making $18-plus an hour and learning new skills that will enhance her resume for the future. Unique and her sons are on the road to financial independence and security.
She says, “I have absolute gratitude for the opportunities that were provided by Family Promise. This organization has helped my family in so many ways. One was the way in which I was introduced to Career Connect with such promising results. With their resources I landed in my career at Guaranteed Garage Doors & Repair. I am happy where I'm working. These angels God had placed in my life was exactly what my family needed. I don't believe it was luck. My family and I are truly blessed.”
To learn more about Family Promise of Martin County, visit www.mcfamilypromise.org.
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