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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has announced new leadership designations and appointments to its Head Office Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2022. Our CEO, Karen Lee, was re-elected as one of the remaining members of the San Francisco Head Office board of directors. More: https://lnkd.in/geAMavz9
The Social Change Leaders Podcast interviewed Karen Lee, CEO of Pioneer Human Services, for an interesting discussion on using a social enterprise to create jobs, generate wealth and provide second chances for justice-involved individuals. Listen HERE.
Pioneer is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit social-enterprise...
Our staff at the Snohomish Youth Residential Homes in the North Sound do an amazing job of working with each youth in the program on a one-on-one basis to assess their needs and address their severe behavioral health issues so they can either be reunited with family, or be placed into an adoptive or appropriate foster care family. The work is very demanding and our employees are devoted to...
Listen to our CEO, Karen Lee, on episode #285 of the Ellevate Network podcast discussing how to create pathways to employment, the importance of mental health and job training services, and how the penal system affects everyone's trajectory. Pioneer promotes second chances for justice-involved individuals.
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The Selma Carson home serves undocumented and unaccompanied boys between the ages of 13 to 17 who are in the United States, and are, or will be, going through immigration proceedings. The youth have been apprehended by state or federal law enforcement. The program focuses on reunification of the boys and their families, and education while in the home.
Selma Carson staff and residents enthusiastically...
Our Roadmap to Success job-readiness training program in Spokane shared a story on a recent student that had spent 22 years in prison and was at a loss at how to search for employment and use all the new technology in the current age.
Roadmap to Success, provides individuals with the needed skills to find and retain employment. The course focuses on overcoming barriers to employment...
November 17, 2021
Washington Nonprofits Receive Over $2.6 Million in Grants from Bank of America;
Jubilee Women’s Center and Pioneer Human Services Named as 2021 Neighborhood Builders®
The Neighborhood Builders Program Provides $200,000 in Flexible Funding ...
I wanted to share my story in hope that people will read it and start to understand how important lowering the barriers to reentry are in giving a formerly incarcerated person a chance to live a successful life. I was incarcerated for seven years and honestly was not sure I would make it out alive during my first two years of incarceration. I was in daily contact with some very violent individuals and I learned the hard way...
Julie Moore, Certified Peer Specialist (pictured) at the new Ituha Stabilization Center (Ituha) in Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island, shared a story with us about the second person admitted to the new center after it was opened in June 2021. Ituha offers a monitored and safe setting for individuals withdrawing from alcohol and drugs, and counseling for individuals...
The National Parks Service's permanent installation, "The Big Lockup - Mass Incarceration in the United States" had a private opening today on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. Two former Pioneer Industries' employees are featured in the exhibit: Nikki (pictured left) and Ameen (second image down). Nikki was able to attend the opening with her husband..
A special thanks to Michele Gee, Chief of...