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Two more graduations highlight Summer 2025 at WorkWell
WorkWell cohorts 30 and 31 graduated this summer from WorkWell's four-week full-time job-readiness program in Trenton. In the photos below, five graduates from each cohort are shown with some of the volunteers and staff members [...]
“My main problem is employment. I just want to be successful.”
Most people making the passage from prison to employment through WorkWell join the program within months of their release. Not Adam Lewis. After he completed his eight-month sentence, five full years passed before he even [...]
“I know where I’ve been, and I know where I’m trying to go.”
A WorkWell Graduate Shares His Personal Story by E. Graham McKinley and Thomas Simonet Even though he grew up on some of the toughest streets of Newark, Jamar’s prospects were good. A member of his [...]
Three WorkWell Grads Share Their “Moving Forward” Stories
By Connie Leyden Through February 2024, over three hundred people have participated in WorkWell’s job-training program and 181 have seen it through to completion. Our participants are uniformly enthusiastic about the curriculum, as well as [...]
Announcing a WorkWell Special Event
On Thursday March 13, 2025 - The WorkWell Partnership invites you to “Moving Forward - A Conversation About Life After Incarceration” among a group of WorkWell graduates. This will be held at Light of the [...]
Employee profile: Paulash Banerjee, Career Navigator
Paulash Banerjee WorkWell’s New Career Navigator WorkWell reached a critical milestone when Paulash Banerjee recently joined the staff. At last, the organization has a full-time person dedicated to building relationships with employers who [...]
Employee profile: Damon Jackson, Program Operations Assistant
Damon Jackson WorkWell's versatile, indispensable presence Damon Jackson is the personal face of WorkWell. He performs a wide variety of tasks, some high profile, others invisible, all indispensable to the mission of reentry [...]
Prison library provides antidote to “Hustler Mindset”
WorkWell graduates, staff and volunteers - September 2024 Larry Jackson's story When Larry Jackson (not his real name) was incarcerated for the second time, he was in his 30s. This sentence felt even [...]
WorkWell graduate thanks God for redirecting him
WorkWell's grads from September 2024 Murry Roberts: A Changed Man When Murry Roberts (not his real name) was in prison in Trenton, his sister and her daughter came to visit. His niece, who [...]