Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries Awarded Three-year CARF Accreditation

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

CARF International announced that Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries has been accredited for a period of three years for its Employment Services: Comprehensive Vocational Evaluation Services programs. The latest accreditation is the 13th consecutive three-year accreditation that the international accrediting body has awarded to Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries.


This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards. An organization receiving a three-year accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable, and accountable.
  
In the CARF survey report, Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries was praised as an organization that has made a positive impact on the community, and recognized as a leader and the “go-to” for providing services for persons with disabilities and other employment barriers.

Youngstown Are Goodwill Industries is a nonprofit organization with offices on Belmont Avenue in Youngstown. It has been providing vocational services in the area since 1893.

  
Goodwill provides job training and employment services, as well as job placement opportunities and post-employment support. Through its programs, Goodwill serves people with disabilities and disadvantages such as welfare dependency, homelessness and lack of education or work experience. In addition, Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries offers services for the visually impaired.
  
CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served. Founded in 1966 as the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, and now known as CARF, the accrediting body establishes consumer-focused standards to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and services.



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