Goodwill Honors Women’s History Month by Helping Women Attain Personal Success!

Put Women Back to Work

It is disheartening to talk about Women’s History Month and at the same time witness hard-fought workplace gains disappearing. It is well-documented that during the pandemic, women have experienced disproportionate job loss. More than 2.3 million women have left the workforce in the past year, compared to 1.8 million men, dropping the women’s labor force participation rate to 57 percent “” the  lowest  it’s been since 1988.

People like Sally Castillo, who had been working in the community and then lost her position when like thousands of other workers, she was laid off by her employer due to the pandemic. Sally shares in her words how Ohio Valley Goodwill helped her to get a new job and get back to work in today’s slowly recovering economy. https://www.facebook.com/133788113358024/videos/456386618741909

Sally Castillo, Success Story

The scale of this crisis for women is such that many are calling it a ” she-session,” drawing attention to the fact that the pandemic-related recession is largely affecting women. In a recently published commentary, Vice President Kamala Harris calls the exodus of women in the workforce a ” national emergency.”

At Ohio Valley Goodwill, we are proud to serve women like Sally and hundreds of others to obtain employment in the Greater Cincinnati community. Sally’s story is just one of the thousands of stories of personal success that Ohio Valley Goodwill is proud to be a part of each year. For more than a century, Goodwill has been an Employment and Training Center in the Greater Cincinnati community, dedicated to its mission of helping people with disabilities and our nation’s veterans go to work.

Goodwill’s mission is supported in large part by its network of 19 retail stores which generate a significant percentage of the income needed to provide its critical employment and training services. The organization is also grateful for its long-time partnerships with Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities as well as County Boards of Developmental Disabilities which has enabled it to continue to provide its services to thousands of individuals in the Greater Cincinnati area.

To find out more about Ohio Valley Goodwill and its programs and services, visit www.cincinnatigoodwill.org/services. To find out more about Employment Services, please contact (513) 771-4800, ext. 6327. Please note that everyone who selects Goodwill for services is referred by an outside partner agency including but not limited to Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities @OhioOOD and County Boards of Developmental Disabilities.

As part of Ohio Valley Goodwill’s recognition of Women’s History Month this year, we are focusing on supporting women facing pandemic-related job loss and/or women who want to obtain employment to improve their futures. Our most sincere congratulations to Sally on her employment and to the thousands of other women who have achieved personal success with the support of Ohio Valley Goodwill.