Goodwill Industries of Kentucky, the Kentucky Chamber Foundation, and Fifth Third Bank are hosting a Fair Chance Opportunity Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Goodwill Elizabethtown Opportunity Center, located next door to Quicksie and The Wolf at 243 West Dixie Avenue.
“A lot of folks that we assist through our opportunity centers are released from jail with basically nothing to their name,” said Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Communications Coordinator Kyle Williams. “We give them a hand up, not a hand out, on their journey back to the workforce and self-sufficiency, and this is just one of the examples.”
Williams says the opportunity fair is a “full-table event.”
“Several of our community and employer partners will be there to offer a wide range of holistic services for these folks like employment opportunities, there’s going to be legal support, there’s going to be an expungement clinic that we will be hosting through Goodwill and our legal aid partners throughout the state,” Williams said.
Appointments for the expungement clinic are full, but walk-ins will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The opportunity fair is open to the public.
“The beauty of it is it’s a holistic approach to their self-sufficiency, so it’s going to be a one-stop shop where you’re going to get a lot of different resources if you’re in that justice-involved population,” Williams said.
Learn more about Goodwill’s expungement program and other services at www.goodwillky.org.
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