Please support Harmony Corps!

Harmony Corps is a temporary job opportunity for people who have significant barriers to employment.
Helping dozens of people learn job skills and better their life, Harmony Corps provides individualized
vocational training while completing a 4-month "internship" at the cafe. During this time, they are learning
about job skills and job placement by actively find ways to improve their employability with the goal
of finding job placement by the end of the 4 month period.

Below is how we helped change one young woman's life
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Testimonials from the video...

"I  left school because I was credit deficient. I was really depressed. I didn't want to leave the
house or do anything. I started to get into drugs and alcohol. Initially I came to
Harmony Cafe looking for volunteer hours. This is when I learned about the Harmony Corps
program. In the beginning we talked about our problems and how we could improve them
and how we could work on our job skills. Harmony Corps helped by giving me my first job
(working in the cafe) and keeping me off the street. The program helped me write a resume and with
interview skills. It helped me learn those job skills which are so important because now I am working
two jobs in the community, I am away from drugs and alcohol, I live on my own; and I would have the
positive attitude I have now if it weren't for Harmony Corps and the people of Harmony Cafe."-April

Other information...
In 2007, Harmony Corps helped 12 individuals facing barriers to
employment by giving them a job at Harmony Cafe, working individually
with them on job skills and developing a plan to work toward
permanent employment in the community

Marcus’ Story 

Four years ago we signed a lease for Harmony Café’s downtown location, and started renovations. 
Each day we noticed a large group of youth and young adults hanging out near the Library and Bus Station. 
One of the people who hung out there every day, all day long was Marcus. 

For the past 4 years we’ve been talking with him about getting a job and getting off the streets, to no avail. 
In August, a group of us started talking about forming a Street Outreach Team with various professionals
from a variety of non-profits.  One idea we had was having one of the “street kids” be part of the Street Outreach Team. 
We asked Marcus to be that person and he was excited.  We told him that he would need to join our
Harmony Corps program first, prior to Street Outreach, and so he did. 

In September he joined the Harmony Corps program, and Angela, Amber and the rest of the Harmony Team
started working with him.  He was washing dishes, stocking and cleaning at Harmony Café about 10 hours per week. 

Mid-September we needed to shut down for renovations.  After four days of shutdown, one of
our program coordinators (Renee) saw Marcus back on the streets.  He complained to her about us
being shutdown, saying he was bored and wanted to get back to work! 

The first week in November he got hired full-time at Arby’s.

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