NW Works Inc

Our mission at NW Works is to enable adults with disabilities and individuals with significant barriers to employment to gain training and secure and sustain meaningful employment.

NW Works is proud to partner with dozens of businesses in Winchester and throughout the broader DC metro region. We welcome any opportunity to provide service that offers meaningful work for our clients with disabilities and other barriers to employment. We know that businesses, from local restaurants to healthcare providers to global manufacturers, are finding it difficult to hire trained staff for entry-level, high-value functions. We believe people with barriers to employment are an untapped resource.

NW Works is uniquely positioned to recruit, train, place, and support workers. Our clients answer the workforce challenges businesses face during peak seasons, when technology or automation cannot solve a specific production need, or when a particular process is too labor-intensive and must be outsourced. Our clients deliver guaranteed quality and on-time service completion. As businesses that provide jobs for those who traditionally have difficulty finding and sustaining employment, partners also benefit from the chance to give back and strengthen the community as a whole.

NW WORKS PARTNERS WITH PROJECT SEARCH
This globally recognized program, which originated in Cincinnati, OH, at a local Children’s Hospital, was initially designed to provide a solution to turn-over issues in the emergency room department. As the program began to develop, the focus shifted to creating training opportunities for high school students with disabilities as they prepare to graduate. This highly successful program expanded from Ohio to several other states in the US and to other countries as well and is now available in Winchester, VA.

The Project Search effort in Winchester is a collaborative group working with the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services, NW Works, local community services boards, Frederick County Public Schools, Winchester City Public Schools, and Valley Health Winchester Medical Center. Through this collaboration, students in their final year of school are eligible to participate in three different internships, each lasting nine weeks. Graduates of the Project Search program gain important job skills and often attain employment prior to or immediately following completion of the program.