Yachad Gifts: Dedicated to Employing Individuals with Disabilities

now I gave a good morning the offered gifts as a gift basket business we started to give people with special needs the chance to work in a real work place where they get the training skills and vocational skills to either get a job here at yad gifts or elsewhere it's really about getting people confident believing in themselves and learning the practical day-to-day skills of how to be a successful employee you know they practice wrapping them and you know be neat and organized that tying the ribbons and the bows and then there's there's the shipping ship things that they aspect box it ship it then print the shipping label paste it on the box and put it out the door I come here today I'm I'm with a hard worker and I am really proud of myself doing that the skills that are taught here they'd be off ID numbers learn how to they learn inventory data entry customer service production design there there's a ton of skills any any skill you could think of that's involved in the business takes place here that's half of the battle figuring out what you want to do so actually like this morning we were doing some goal-setting and figuring things out right do you think that a lot of these different skills that you learn here can translate into other jobs teamwork cooperation participation right so this is really a way to train for other places because everyone is capable of getting a paid job everyone has something to offer our busiest season is is as poram we prepare we prepare thousands and thousands of gift baskets you know a big chunk of those baskets come from synagogues they order in bulk some hundreds and then we also get a ton of web orders our second busy season would be Rosh Hashanah and our third busy season to be a Hanukkah what kind of job do you hope to get from your training here a computer job and working in a place below some of the some of the jobs people have been high for they've been hired supermarkets and bagging groceries putting up an inventory on shelves someone got in a job in a in a factory he works on an assembly line a lot of people come back here and and they you know they say that hey you know you guys you guys taught me how to had a had to work in a real environment and I was able to get a job from that to me it's not all about the salary it's just basically you know not to sit home all day feeling miserable doing nothing a basically coming to the gift baskets cut them basically helped me to motivate me more and help me to like interact with people that's been yet it was everybody here it's such a difference to me it's a way it's I want to work so badly what's cannot describe it and then when I come over here I feel like if there's no person I'll be almost on your life I thought it was my home and so much to me not I or me is be a card then the other will never grow apart [Music] you