Since 2016, JBM Packaging has offered employment opportunities to a community that often faces stigma and barriers to hire: the recently incarcerated. We understand that a criminal record can affect not just work but all aspects of life, and so our Better Lives Program attempts to meet participants where they are and provide resources to uplift them in life as well as in their career.
Better Lives Program participants receive:
Job Training
Team members are trained with transferable skills that will allow them to succeed at JBM or elsewhere within the manufacturing industry.
Coaching
All participants meet with a life coach and a financial counselor to plan out a road map to success, whatever that looks like for the individual.
Material Support
JBM partners with organizations offering housing assistance, help with transportation, and more.