Howard IndustriesProviding opportunities for employment and training has been a foudation service of JHSNOK since the 1960's. In fact, the founding Executive Director, Bill Hesketh, was decades ahead of his time when he created Howard Industries as a separate arm of the Society for the sole purpose of reconnecting homeless and unemployed men, and those who had recently been released from incarceration, with the work world. Until the early 1990's, Howard Industries provided employment and training opportunities primarily in the forest, agricultural and construction sector. Howard Industries Ltd. was revived in 2010 as an incorporated entity, separate from the John Howard Society. Howard Industries functions as a social enterprise - a business venture designed to provide a needed service or goods to the marketplace, while supporting the mission of the John Howard Society of the North Okanagan/Kootenay Region of BC. Current Howard Industries Projects: Food service to the RCMP cells: providing three meals a day to people incarcerated at the Vernon RCMP station. Handyman services: providing general clean-up and moving services to local residents and businesses. To contact Howard Industries...info@jhsnok.ca Printable brochure available - Howard Industries
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