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JusticeWorks Community Updates
Top Workplace by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette 2021 Results
JusticeWorks was again chosen as a Top Workplace by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette! Our President and CEO, Dan Heit, stated that this award was especially gratifying as it came from employee surveys. We know that our winning culture is everything - we will only be successful with children and families if our staff feel respected, acknowledged, and trusted. Although that culture has been tested in unimaginable ways this past year, our resiliency and devotion to the families we serve has prevailed. Congratulations...
JusticeWorks Ohio and the Violation Initiative Program (VIP)® and Aggression Replacement Training Program
Recently, the guidance of our JWOH Hamilton Director, Debi Schneider, we offered Summer Enrichment Days to our youth to provide additional opportunities for healthy leisure and therapeutic activities during the dog days of this summer. On July 7th, FRS Kenyatta Sims and FRS Alex Shock-Herweh hosted a fun-filled day with our Hamilton youth. The team conducted a morning of Healthy Decisions and Expectations group to address and grow from the reasons for court involvement. Our partners at the Clippard Family YMCA allowed us to utilize their gym for a competitive basketball game, the pool for...
Indiana County, IL Making a Difference!
“Innovative and Unique” are a few terms that were used by The State Department of Human Services within their flowingly positive review of our Indiana Branch Independent Living program. The review included that we experienced despite a budget drop last year, nonetheless, our Indiana, IL team persevered and excelled. This same team a few years ago was awarded as the Statewide Independent Living Provider of the Year. Their winning ways continue on. The reviewers not only noted that our team was innovative and unique, but they also spoke highly on how we were about to adapt, change, and...
Happy Fourth of July!
Today America celebrates 245 years of Independence. America has a long and storied history and more than anything is known and respected for the continued effort to make “a more perfect union”. There are undoubtedly parts of our history which tarnish the founding principle that “all men are created equal”, but it is to the country’s enduring credit that they have been acknowledged and work continues to build a just and equitable community filled with opportunity for all. America endures as a set of aspirational principles and philosophies which make it a “shining city on the hill.” Let...
A letter from our President, Dan Heit, regarding Juneteenth
As you likely know, yesterday President Biden signed authorizing legislation making June 19th, known as Juneteenth, a National Holiday. Given the short notice, we will celebrate the day as a paid holiday this Monday, June 21st. In years to come we will adjust the day off depending on when June 19th falls. Many people believe that slavery ended on January 1, 1863 with the passage of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Actually, that proclamation only freed slaves in the then Confederate States. It was on January 31, 1865 that the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was...
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