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Goodwill donation drop-off locations and retail stores are ubiquitous. Less obvious is the nonprofit’s job placement services that assist job seekers with everything from resume writing, online applications and mock interviews to new uniforms and transportation.
Johanna Wagner is the assistant director for employment and veterans services for Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois. She said Gov. JB Pritzker’s March stay-at-home order forced an immediate online pivot.
“So quickly, we had to start transforming into this virtual world,” said Wagner. “It’s affected us greatly – some in good ways because we are now virtual and in person.”
PEORIA
The effort to move people out of a homeless enclave under the Murray Baker Bridge and into warm, semi-permanent housing is exciting and something that hasn t been seen before here in the Peoria area.
That s the word from Kate Green, the head of the Home for All Continuum of Care, which is the clearinghouse agency for groups that help those who live on the street or in the area s shelters.
By the end of the the day Monday, more than a dozen of the 20 or so people who made the encampment their home had been moved to an area hotel which had agreed to accept the camp denizens. There are a handful of people left at the settlement who will likely be moved within a day.