A Job is Job One!

Tulsa, Oklahoma   "Although they may be hard to find, job opportunities for felons do exist. Various nonprofits and faith-based groups offer job training and search tools for people coming out of prison. Goodwill Industries of Tulsa is a vendor of the Prisoner Reentry Initiative, a U.S. Department of Labor grant administered by the Community Service Council. The initiative is to cut down on people re-offending by helping them find and maintain jobs. It also provides incentives to employers who hire participants in the program. Goodwill Industries case manager Joshua Firor said the manufacturing and food service industries are most likely to give jobs to people with felony convictions. ... 'It's much harder to place someone with a record,' Firor said. 'I can have someone who is completely qualified for a job and can perform in that job at or better than another person, but they won't get it solely because of the felony.' "   Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110306_11_A1_CUTLIN458327&rss_lnk=1