WORK TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Reach strives to give our participants the knowledge and abilities to gain fulfilling work, and maintain a job out in the community. Partnering with local businesses out in the community, REACH utilizes hands-on training in a paid work environment. We work with each individual participant and their goals to place them in a job that will help them work on and ultimately achieve their goals. REACH will send job coaches to work with each participant and train them for each businesses specification until each participant is well versed on their job, after which our job coaches will start fading and begin periodically checking in on status of each participant.

For our participants who have difficulty, dislike, or cannot work out in community jobs, REACH offers a variety of options which includes; working in the wood mill, working in the recycle department at any of the three locations or joining our day services area (DSA).  Each option offers skills training as well as accomplishing individual participant goals. The wood mill and recycle are paid training, whereas the DSA offers paid training jobs if requested. The DSA offers services to all age groups with assorted levels of proficiencies. With a knowledgeable staff with years of experience guiding and teaching our participants. By offering a safe and supported environment to learn life skills, participate in arts and crafts, and improve social skills by interacting with other in camaraderie.

RECYCLE

In 2008, REACH began its’ Recycling services starting with “Secured Document Destruction” which grew to include cardboard, office paper, newspaper, books, and most recently donated returnable cans and bottles. With the emergence of a local recycling processing plant and awareness of REACHs’ recycling operations growing, REACH had the need to expand. In 2016, REACH opened up two more locations in Klamath Falls in order to mitigate the flow of recycled material.

As recycled materials are brought to REACH they are sorted into their respected piles. Then the recycled material will be compressed into bales using a belt-fed baler, each bale ranges from 1500lbs upwards to 2000lbs each. After enough bales have been made they are shipped off to a bigger recycling facility where they will then be processed into reusable materials.

Secured Shred is processed differently than other recyclable materials in that the material is in whole document form containing sensitive customer data. The material is weighed and promptly locked up in recycling bins till it is time for destruction. The customer will then pay a secured shred fee charged at a minimum of $5.00 for 20lbs and under or $.25/lbs. for anything over 20lbs.

• In 2015 we have recycled more than 4.8 million pounds of material for Klamath County Residents.