How Formerly Incarcerated are Building the Workforce | Breaking The Cycle

Описание: Rise Up Industries assists previously incarcerated, formerly gang involved individuals to successfully reenter society with social enterprise programs like their fully functioning job shop machine shop. Believe it or not, 100% of Rise Up Industries members have been hired upon graduation.

Manufacturers are hiring Rise Up graduates for not only for their technical skills, but for qualities that are hard to find in your average employee, like passion, loyalty and employee retention.

In this video you'll learn a bit more about Rise Up Industries and their mission, take a tour of the Rise Up Industries Machine Shop and finally meet the members who will be sharing their machining projects and stories over the course of the next 5 installments of this brand new series, Breaking the Cycle.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
04:32 Meet machine shop manager Dustin Greeves,
07:17 Meet Mike who looks forward to the stability and opportunity machining will bring him and his family
08:18 Meet Kawan whose ultimate goal is to become and machinist a CNC programmer
09:17 Meet Ernesto who is excited to become a CNC programmer
09:27 Meet Joseph who loves creating things that have not been created before!
10:00 Meet John who loves learning and working with his hands and tools to create.
10:40 Take a tour of the shop
10:53 Check out the metal components!

The machine shop is a core component of Rise Up Industries’ wraparound Reentry Program for previously gang-involved individuals recently released from incarceration. Listen to the stories. Join a movement of machine shops across the US giving people a second chance.

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Breaking the Cycle is a video series developed in collaboration with @Rise Up Industries . Each episode of the series features shop projects and candid second chance stories from Rise Up Industries in San Diego.

Rise Up Industries, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, operates an 18-month Reentry Program for formerly gang-involved individuals recently released from incarceration. The program is in its seventh year of operation and provides comprehensive services from employment and job training to counseling and financial literacy.

A key component of their Reentry Program is the Machine Shop Social Enterprise, where members are trained for careers as CNC (Computer Numeric Control) machine operators. 100% of Reentry Program graduates were employed at a living wage immediately upon graduation by local manufacturing companies.

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