Easter Seals Disability Services

Goodwill Services

Easter Seals-Goodwill Northern Rocky Mountain, Inc. currently operates nine Goodwill stores in Montana and southern Idaho.  The stores provide vocational training sites for individuals with developmental, physical or emotional disabilities, as well as people who are unemployed due to educational or vocational disadvantages.

Participants develop and improve their work skills and gain work experience. They process textiles and hard goods to be sold in the stores or work on the sales floor as clerks and cashiers. Proceeds from the retail stores are used to pay the wages of these workers and to support additional Easter Seals-Goodwill programs and services.

Ever since Rev. Edgar J. Helms, a Methodist minister, began collecting and reselling used clothing in Boston in 1902 with the goal of providing productive work for the unemployed, Goodwill Industries International has steadily grown and progressed by following his philosophy. The cycle of donations, processing, resale and meaningful employment has remained essentially unchanged since the founding of Goodwill Industries.

Goodwill retail stores and plants in Montana and southern Idaho play a key role in Easter Seals-Goodwill's workforce development services. On average over 30% of our stores' staff has a disability or other barrier to employment. In 2007 1,005 individuals with disabilities and disadvantages received job training and work opportunities at our eight Goodwill Stores.

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