![]() ![]() “Our big emphasis the past several years has been helping families we serve and others in coming out of homelessness and extreme poverty,” Safstrom said. ReNewWorks Home and Decor is a high quality consignment and donation store which opened for business in July 2013. Safstrom said people housed by the Everett Gospel Mission, the Interfaith Association of Northwest Washington’s Family Shelter, the YWCA and other agencies are also being trained. “What we aspire to do, not only at HopeWorks but in our greater employment program, is provide a great variety of opportunities.”īeyond HopeWorks internships, Housing Hope and its affiliate have community-based employment programs and job help for students. “There will be much greater job training opportunities in food preparation and service,” Safstrom said. ![]() With a substantial kitchen, what has been a coffee shop will became a full-service cafe. Plans call for the cafe to move to the new building. GroundWorks provides jobs and internships in commercial landscaping. CafeWorks is a barista training ground, staffed by interns from the Cocoon House teen shelter and a Housing Hope teen parent program. It employs 6-10 people and has 0M-1M of revenue. ReNewWorks specializes in consigned and donated furniture. ReNewWorks Home and Decor is a company that operates in the Furniture industry. Safstrom said HopeWorks Station II, which will have 65 units of housing on upper levels, should at least double the agency’s internship program, “to 100 per year with HopeWorks alone.” His dream job would be sharing his story, through some type of nonprofit, to help others. ReNewWorks is an upscale donation and consignment home furnishing and decor store. ![]() The internship “has been really good,” he said. Robinson said he had to eliminate from his life “people I used to hang out with,” along with all their phone numbers. His battle to stay clean began about three years ago, he said. Finding work with a criminal record has been a major challenge, he said.Īfter a rock-bottom overdose experience, he went to drug treatment. HopeWorks, an affiliate of Everett-based Housing Hope. His path, he said, included an injury, surgeries, drug addiction and troubles with the law. And both are gaining job skills as paid interns at ReNewWorks Home and Decor, an Everett shop operated by HopeWorks Social Enterprises. “Everyone became homeless for a reason,” Robinson said. This location is in Snohomish County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metropolitan. A father of three, he lives with his family in a Housing Hope complex in central Everett. Renewworks Home and Decor is located at 3331 Broadway, Everett, WA 98201. Robinson, 36, was in the shop Wednesday using a computer to track inventory. ![]()
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