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The problem we try to solve is: How can we help to promote healthy communities and lifestyles within
the vulnerable population?
We
do this by helping those vulnerable and at-risk populations’ youth (ages 14 – 24), displaced homemakers,
minority and disadvantaged individuals with no job experience and those low-income individuals on public assistance,
to expand their employment opportunities by getting work skill training.
Our mission is to provide on-the-job-training to our clients by
giving them that first job experience and free work skill training. Our services would help lessen the burden and support
the efforts of government programs such as public assistance programs and the workforce development and youth service programs
by providing work skill training, which would help reduce poverty by allowing a chance for better jobs, which would in turn
allow for a better quality of life and a healthier and better standard of living. Also
by providing these services in the communities where they live, it would enable people in the communities to expand their
own opportunities and support their youth in the process. We also hope to benefit
the community by providing support to the community association activities and meetings through the use of our facility,
promoting the common good and general welfare of the community and also helping to combat juvenile delinquency by promoting
social interaction.
Our mission
is also to provide our customers with document preparation/business writing
services that will help them take their first crucial step down the road to realizing their dreams of having their
own business; help them become more successful by utilizing financial resources available; help their established businesses
expand and prosper; and to become a leader in document preparation and business
writing. Our hope for the future is to expand into other communities and counties
in the State of Maryland and throughout the DC Metropolitan areas.
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What is the link between the problems of the vulnerable population and O.J.T.B.?
Starting
out new to the job market, straight out of school (high school or college), with the knowledge and training you possess fresh
in your mind, there is a nervous excitement you get when applying for a job you already learned and know you can do. You are confidently making plans for what you will do with your paychecks when you
get this job, a car, new clothes, your own place. It’s very disappointing
to hear, “You have a good amount of training, but you don’t have any job experience and we need someone who has
time in the workplace.” Sometimes that disappointment brings forth a feeling
of rejection and can push our youth to despair and then to at-risk situations that can take them down the road leading to
crime, jail and maybe even death.
What links us together is that we are part of the communities we service and know the people in them. They know we care and won’t judge them because we are part of the same population. We can and will help them to take steps forward, out of an environment of temptation
going in the wrong direction and give them a marketable skill, work experience, office etiquette, self-confidence, pride,
independence, self-esteem, a healthy and more positive outlook on life and even a paycheck.
They would then be able to exert better control over their lives and participate in their communities in meaningful
and effective ways.
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To promote healthly communities and lifestyles.
O.J.T.B. believes that health of the community comes from within the community through people who
live in it. Not feeling good about you does not leave much room to feel good about anything or anyone else. In
providing free work skill training to individuals, it will build self-esteem and promote a healthier mental environment
to plant the seed of social interaction and general support for the community.
O.J.T.B. is also partnering with other organizations and businesses. One such partnership
is My Own Biz, Inc., a business that "prepares youth for entrepreneurship".
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To Make a Donation to O.J.T.B. (Only Just the Beginning), Inc. to Help Support What We Are Doing, Please Click the
"Donate Button"!!
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