Licking Knox Goodwill Industries

Janitorial, lawn care and general maintenance contracts provide a broad range of business services customized to customer requirements while providing training and employment opportunities to employees with special needs. Services provided are basic janitorial services, general facility maintenance, commercial lawn care, restoration, floor/carpet care for all types of surfaces and periodic window cleaning.

Vocational rehabilitation services provide a series of programs used to assist individuals' transition into the work force. Programs offered are career interest assessment (assists clients in identifying vocational assets, aptitudes, interest and potential barriers to employment), career interest assessment workshop (9-hour workshop to explore career paths based on personality and strengths and to indentify employment barriers and devise strategies to overcome them), community based assessment (provides clients an opportunity to sample a particular job of interest and experience the job sites), job coaching (one-on-one assistance to clients in training programs who may need intensive training and/or require a specialized training approach), job development (assists clients in learning skills necessary to access employment opportunities and obtaining employment, assistance in resumes, job applications, proper work attitude, grooming/hygiene, interpersonal skills and interviewing skills), job retention (work closely with clients, employers and co-workers to support the client in removing barriers to job retention), job try-out (provides the opportunity for the client to perform a specific job of interest, which may lead to employment), life skills training (teaches behavior, interpersonal life management and career skills), occupational skills training (specialized curriculums for job specific training to employer specifications, including safety practices, workplace literacy and numeric skills specific to the occupation), work adjustment (specialized training in obtaining work behaviors necessary to gain and maintain employment in the community), youth works (provides paid training/work opportunities for out-of-school youth in licking county ages 16-21, including youth who have been suspended, expelled, have not graduated or completed a ged), able/ged program (on-site program available to anyone who does not have a high school diploma or equivalent level of education).

Other programs include housing provided to low income individuals, families and veterans, workshop, auto repair and other programs that benefit the licking/knox communiites.