In an effort to help close workforce talent gaps and reduce turnover in the Tri-Cities food processing industry, we teamed up with the Northwest Food Processors Association (NWFPA) to create a roundtable discussion among area food processors at the Port of Pasco that led to the development of some great new ideas for attracting skilled talent to the industry and area. …
HR education & career resource OnlineHumanResources.Net (OHR) highlighted our Strategic Plan in a recent blog post, stating that our grand plans for expansion of revenue and employment of people with disabilities is good news for people in human resources. OHR emphasizes the point that “hiring people with disabilities is not only an ethical, and socially responsible thing to do, it also helps make a profit for your company.” This is, of course, what DePaul Industries is based on.
OHR continues: “The ADA, USBLN and many other federal organizations have made the information available for the business case for hiring people with disabilities for quite some time; it was just a matter of time before major enterprises such as DePaul Industries acted on this knowledge. After … news of the $1.37-$1.94 trillions lost each year due to the lack of people with disabilities in the workforce, this comes as a sigh of relief.”
This is important for anyone in HR to know: Your business can reap financial benefits from hiring people with disabilities — not just social and ethical ones. For DePaul, it’s not just a theory — it’s a proven practice.
To read the full blog post, click here. Many thanks to Online Human Resources for the support.
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When aiming to create employment opportunities for everyone who wants to work, that includes discovering and developing innovative ways to create jobs for those with the most significant barriers to employment. The unique Project SEARCH program rose to the surface as a solution when DePaul Industries was the first to begin administering it in Oregon a few years ago, and it has proved its success most recently at one of our business partners, The Standard.
DePaul Industries partnered with The Standard to solve workforce issues and create jobs for people with disabilities in Portland, OR through the nationally-renowned Project SEARCH employment program. Project SEARCH takes a simple yet underutilized approach to employment integration, and has proven to forge partnerships with businesses that benefit the workplace, the community, and the individual.
Project SEARCH US has recognized the partnership by featuring an article about the program’s benefits that originally appeared in The Standard’s internal newsletter.Visit Project SEARCH US or read the article to learn about the business success at The Standard through the Project SEARCH program.
Interested in learning how the Project SEARCH program could enhance your business? Get in touch.
We’re excited to unveil our five-year strategic plan today, which focuses on scaling our staffing, security, and food packaging & contract manufacturing business units in order to increase our mission impact over the next five years.
Over the next five years, we will nearly triple our annual earned revenue and our employment of people with disabilities. Through this growth, we will remain financially self-sufficient & relevant to our customers—all the while driven by continuous improvement throughout our organization. We’re not reinventing ourselves; we’re simply building on what we’ve already proven to work: Since our inception, we’ve grown into a $25.7 million company, and trained or employed in excess of 15,000 people with disabilities.
This success is built on using business approaches to solve social problems, a blend that has always been part of the framework of DePaul. Our recent local and international recognition is a testament not only to the attention being paid to this concept—dubbed ‘Social Entrepreneurism’—but also an acknowledgement of DePaul as an established leader in the field. Translation: We’ve always done it this way, and done it well. People are beginning to notice.
Read the press release or view a PDF excerpt of the plan listing our Strategic Goals for 2016.
To view the full Strategic Plan, please right-click and save to your desktop.
To coincide with the start of 2012, our 41st year, DePaul Industries is proud to announce our entrance into the blogosphere.
We’ll be providing news and updates related to our staffing, security, and food packaging & contract manufacturing businesses; as well as our momentum in the social entrepreneurial sector. Keep your eye out for special features such as new job openings, tips on outsourcing for your business, customer testimonials, and news related to employment—
with a special emphasis on employment of people with disabilities.
With our eye toward future expansion and more engaged communication, this blog’s objective will be to communicate the business and social change activities of DePaul Industries and its cohorts.
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