Meet Jaymie!
About Jaymie
Life’s Work is much more than providing clients a place for assembly, kitting, and mailing jobs. It is about finding your inner passion, jump-starting your ambition, and ultimately finding yourself within society. One extraordinary Life’sWork client, Jaymie, demonstrates a great example of what our mission is all about. Beginning with our youth program, Jaymie molded herself through perseverance and eventually found the confidence to move into an apartment on her own. Enthusiastic and willing to try different opportunities through the various Life’sWork programs, Jaymie was able to experience different job opportunities through business partners such as Gamma Sports, Little Earth Productions, the University of Pittsburgh, and Coen Oil. Jaymie explains that through all of her different involvements, Gamma Sports was her favorite, and is eager to go back. Life’sWork of Western PA’s Coordinator of Adult Services, Ed O’Rourke mentions that “empowerment” would be a perfect word to describe Jaymie as she enabled herself to take public transportation & move into an apartment all by herself. Whenever an opportunity arises, she will find the ambition and seize control of it.
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Requiring masks in our facilities is just one of the ways we are taking action to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We implemented temperature checks and screenings for everyone who enters our facilities and are practicing diligent cleaning and sanitization for all surfaces and areas. In addition, work stations are set up for social distancing and we implemented limits on the number of clients in the building at once. We also developed policies for staff safety to limit potential spread of the virus.
