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PRIDE partners with leading businesses to create jobs for people with disabilities.

ROSEVILLE – PRIDE Industries reports a 575 percent annual increase in the number of PRIDE employees with disabilities in community employment and a 400 percent increase in the number of PRIDE supported employment community work groups in Northern California. The growth is attributed to a focus on increasing employment integration opportunities and greater understanding of the value of hiring people with disabilities within the business community.

 

PRIDE’s supported employment program provides the tools, training and coaching necessary for individuals with disabilities to succeed in the workplace. With time-tested vocational expertise developed over more than 40 years, PRIDE carefully assesses each individual’s strengths and interests, provides continuous training before, during and after employment, and then carefully matches each individual’s abilities with employer needs in either individual or work group placements.

 

Group placements provide a supportive peer-sharing environment at businesses in the community. Over a one year period, PRIDE’s added 28 new supported work groups at businesses in the community. This led to a corresponding increase in the number of individuals employed in these groups, from 16 to 108.

 

Regional business partners include Ingram Micro, TASQ Technology, Rite Aid Distribution Center, Unisource, Pasco scientific, Thomson Grass Valley, West National Warehousing, Sims Recycling Solutions and a group known as the Fairfield Rovers, providing services to a number of businesses and organizations in Fairfield, CA.

 

“PRIDE has not only helped us achieve our financial objectives, but also helped us to achieve our social obligations to the community by employing a large number of people with disabilities” said Jeff Solomon, AVP, Sales – West Region; Unisource Worldwide, Inc. “Unisource is very committed to a healthy bottom line financially and socially.  Our relationship with PRIDE Industries has fostered growth within both companies.”

 

“Our services are designed to be comprehensive, giving the individual and employer the greatest chance for success.” said Vic Wurston, VP for PRIDE Industries. “We recognize the unique abilities of each individual, and customize our approach to maximize each person’s full potential. In so doing, we prove there is real business benefit to choosing PRIDE Industries.”

 

PRIDE Industries provides supported or individual employment services in California, Texas, New Mexico, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C.

About PRIDE Industries:

PRIDE Industries is a nonprofit organization providing a variety of business solutions to meet the manufacturing and service needs of companies nationwide. PRIDE is dedicated to creating jobs for people with disabilities and employs more than 4,100 individuals across eleven states and in the nation’s capitol, including more than 2,700 people with disabilities.

Media Contact
Kat Maudru
(916) 753-4339

media@prideindustries.com

PRIDE Industries is a social enterprise delivering business excellence to public and private organizations nationwide.

ROSEVILLE – PRIDE Industries, a leading employer of people with disabilities, announces the recent expansion of employment services to central Louisiana with the addition of its Alexandria, LA office. Employment services are designed to provide employers with capable, skilled and motivated workers to meet diverse job requirements.

 

PRIDE’s Louisiana Employment Services offices will help to recruit, hire and train workers in support of the company’s Directorate of Public Works contract at Fort Polk, and in the community at large. PRIDE Industries has more than 40 years of expertise in preparing people with disabilities for employment in PRIDE’s own manufacturing, supply chain and facilities maintenance businesses, and with other businesses in the community.

 

PRIDE offers a continuum of person-centered services to help people with disabilities meet their employment goals and to become acclimated and productive in their new positions. Individual abilities are carefully matched to employer needs and supported with employer and employee assistance to ensure success. Employment service offerings for people with disabilities include vocational assessments, job development and placement services, on-site job coaching and training and employer/employee consultations.

 

PRIDE Industries’ has been nationally recognized for its efforts to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities. PRIDE currently provides employment services to people with disabilities in California, Texas, New Mexico, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

About PRIDE Industries:

PRIDE Industries is a nonprofit organization providing a variety of business solutions to meet the manufacturing and service needs of business and government nationwide. PRIDE employs more than 4,300 individuals across 10 states and in the nation’s capital, including more than 2,700 people with disabilities. PRIDE is a self-sustaining business with over $150 million in annual revenue and ranks as the third largest manufacturing and service company in the greater Sacramento region.  Founded in 1966, PRIDE is headquartered in Roseville, CA.

Media Contact
Kat Maudru
(916) 753-4339

media@prideindustries.com

PRIDE Industries is a social enterprise delivering business excellence to public and private organizations nationwide.

Collaborative program is designed to improve futures of foster youth.

ROSEVILLE – PRIDE Industries is proud to announce the expansion of its foster youth services program, designed to address the critical failure rates for emancipated youth. The expansion adds two additional staff to the development and vocational training program.

 

In our region alone, hundreds of foster youth “age out” of the foster care system annually. Teenagers leave the foster care system alone and without a support system. Studies show that emancipated foster youth are at much higher risk of homelessness, unemployment, academic failure, incarceration, teen pregnancies and a host of other problems. According to a 2002 California Department of Social Services study, 65 percent of foster care youths leave the system without a place to live. A 2003 release issued by the Office of the Governor states that within 2-4 years of emancipation, 40 percent of youths are on public assistance or incarcerated.

 

In a collaborative partnership between the Placer County Office of Education (Foster Services Youth Division), the CA Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) and PRIDE Industries, the Foster Youth Employment Program addresses the critical needs of emancipated foster youth. Providing assessments, job-specific preparation, resume development and interviewing techniques, paid work experience and placement along with life-skills coaching, PRIDE, and its partners provide a platform of support that enables young adults to transition successfully to adulthood.

 

“With this comprehensive program we can offer the individual a much better chance for success,” said Vic Wursten, VP PRIDE Industries. “What is equally important is that each successful transition helps to break the generational cycle of broken homes resulting in the need for foster care.”

 

In fiscal year 2008/2009, 48 foster youths ages 16-19 have been served by the program with nearly 50 percent already placed in employment. With each success, both the individual and the public benefit as the youths become self-sufficient contributing members of the community instead of continued end-users of taxpayer dollars.

About PRIDE Industries:

PRIDE Industries is a nonprofit organization providing a variety of business solutions to meet the manufacturing and service needs of companies nationwide. PRIDE is dedicated to creating jobs for people with disabilities and employs more than 4,100 individuals across 11 states and in the nation’s capital, including more than 2,700 people with disabilities.

Media Contact
Kat Maudru
(916) 753-4339

media@prideindustries.com

PRIDE Industries is a social enterprise delivering business excellence to public and private organizations nationwide.

ROSEVILLE – CoolSystems Inc. – makers of Game Ready™, an injury treatment system that has been designed to use cold and compression therapy to speed patients’ recovery from injury or surgery – has selected PRIDE Industries, among the nation’s largest employers of people with disabilities, to provide electro-mechanical and mechanical assembly, product testing and supply chain management.  This announcement expands on a three-year relationship between the two companies, during which time PRIDE provided the same services for a Game Ready product used to treat horses.

 

Game Ready is a portable device that improves on traditional icing techniques by combining NASA spacesuit technology for its anatomic wraps with adjustable cold and compression therapy. Game Ready is the injury treatment system of choice for thousands of prominent orthopedic clinics and professional sports teams from the National Basketball Association, National Football League and National Hockey League, as well as U.S. Olympic teams and numerous military operational forces, all which require individuals to maintain peak performance.

 

“PRIDE Industries has been a tremendous partner for our equine products, so we are pleased to work with them on our Game Ready systems for the human market,” said Russ Harrison, president and CEO of CoolSystems. “We have been impressed with their attention to detail, exemplary service and their leadership in employing people with disabilities.”

 

PRIDE Industries is ISO 13485 certified and licensed by the state of California for medical device manufacturing. Through its Manufacturing and Logistics Division, PRIDE Industries offers a full range of custom-designed, single-source service capabilities, including electronics and medical device manufacturing, supply chain solutions, automated order fulfillment, contract packaging, kitting, and global sourcing and distribution.

 

“Working with CoolSystems on the human product is very exciting,” said Steve Twitchell, vice president of Manufacturing and Logistics of PRIDE Industries. “As Game Ready continues to expand its market reach, we are pleased that our solutions satisfy their needs.”

About CoolSystems:

Based in Alameda, California, CoolSystems Inc., makers of Game Ready™, manufactures and markets pneumatic cryotherapy systems for both people and animals. The systems provide intermittent or cyclical compression while simultaneously delivering dry, adjustable cold therapy when applied to the affected area. The system can be operated with minimal training, and with its patented ergonomic wraps, adjustable temperature and compression levels, and its portable design can be incorporated into a multitude of treatment protocols. For public information, please visit www.gameready.com.

About PRIDE Industries:

PRIDE Industries is a nonprofit organization providing a variety of business solutions to meet the manufacturing and service needs of companies nationwide. PRIDE employs more than 4,100 individuals across nine states and in the nation’s capital, including more than 2,700 people with disabilities. PRIDE is a self-sustaining business with over $145 million in annual revenue and ranks as the third largest manufacturing and service company in the greater Sacramento region.  Founded in 1966, PRIDE is headquartered in Roseville, California.

Media Contact
Kat Maudru
(916) 753-4339

media@prideindustries.com

PRIDE Industries is a social enterprise delivering business excellence to public and private organizations nationwide.

ROSEVILLE – PRIDE Industries, one of the nation’s largest employers of people with disabilities, has expanded its facilities maintenance services throughout Northern California by securing five new contracts.

 

Covering a total of nearly 2 million square feet, the new contracts place PRIDE in charge of custodial services for:

 

  • The Sacramento Bee’s 500,000 square foot location in downtown Sacramento for three years;
  • The City of Modesto, where PRIDE workers will assume custodial responsibility over five years for 200,000 square feet in 33 city-owned buildings, including the Transit Center, the McHenry Mansion and Modesto’s water treatment facilities;
  • The Sonoma County Juvenile Justice Facility in Santa Rosa, where PRIDE will provide facilities management solutions in a high-security environment that includes detainee housing units, as well as the main facility.  PRIDE will be responsible for maintenance of more than 200,000 square feet of space over three years;
  • The UC Davis Robert & Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and the Peter J. Shields Library, a total of 515,000 square feet, for three years;
  • Agnews State Hospital in San Jose, a one-year contract for custodial work covering 500,000 square feet.

 

Through its Integrated Facilities Services Division, PRIDE Industries offers a full range of services to government and commercial customers including general custodial, facilities and building maintenance; specialized cleaning for controlled environments; grounds maintenance; food service; secure document management services; recycling; administrative services; and transportation.

About Pride Industries:

PRIDE Industries is a nonprofit organization providing a variety of business solutions to meet the manufacturing and service needs of companies nationwide. PRIDE employs more than 4,100 individuals across nine states and in the nation’s capital, including more than 2,700 people with disabilities. PRIDE is a self-sustaining business with over $145 million in annual revenue and ranks as the third largest manufacturing and service company in the greater Sacramento region.  Founded in 1966, PRIDE is headquartered in Roseville, California.

Media Contact
Kat Maudru
(916) 753-4339

media@prideindustries.com

PRIDE Industries is a social enterprise delivering business excellence to public and private organizations nationwide.