Since the death of Focus:HOPE Co-founder, Eleanor Josaitis, recently, the diversity-sensitive civil and human rights organization led now by CEO William Jones, Jr., has hired Detroit residents for manufacturing jobs with auto supplier, Android Industries.
Android leases 70,000 square feet of the Detroit campus of Focus:HOPE for assembling headliners and front and rear suspension modules for the 2012 Chevrolet Volt, according to officials.
The GM plant in Hamtramck assembles the parts that are produced on demand.
A press conference unveiling the news was held Monday with Governor Rick Snyder attending.
"It's the right thing to do," Android, Industries CEO Jerry Elson said.
Officials at Focus:HOPE conclude that 75 percent of job training graduates are employed within 90 days of completing their program.
Focus:HOPE is morphing what commununity and workforce mean in neighborhoods.
It's the right thing to do.
That has always been the aim at Focus:HOPE that sits at 1355 Oakman Boulevard now over forty years since its founding by the late Father William Cunnigham and Josaitis when riots erupted in Detroit.
Visit Focus:HOPE at http://www.foucshope.edu/, or call 313 494 5500.
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