{"id":5622,"date":"2022-09-26T03:54:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T03:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2025-12-22T00:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:20:40","slug":"quality-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/2022\/09\/26\/quality-wash\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Wash"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><\/style>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5622\" class=\"elementor elementor-5622\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c10790f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c10790f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-85bda8d\" data-id=\"85bda8d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7088a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b7088a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through our Entrepreneurship, Education and Exchange (EEE) at Living Proof we guide and mentor our partners into achieving their business and social goals. We are proud of our work with underserved communities, assisting them in their fight for equity and equal access business and education opportunities; to become community and business leaders.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quality Wash was founded by justice involved members and has since employed over nearly 1000 other justice involved citizens from New York and\u00a0 Arizona; providing the highest quality cleaning detailing services for dozens of businesses. Quality Wash is a place where everyone has a chance for new beginnings.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Number of justices involved individuals employed through Quality Wash partnership:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, 135 employees<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, 100 employees<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, 70 employees<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, 175 employees\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2022 -2025, 415 employees<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than three out of four, or 83 percent, of individuals released from state prisons will be rearrested within nine years. Access to meaningful employment and adequate housing is vitally important not only for those reentering society, but also for our public safety. Securing both employment and housing have been found to be key barriers that inhibit someone\u2019s ability to realize their potential once they have a criminal record. Research consistently reveals that access to meaningful employment is essential for reducing future crime among individuals who have previously been incarcerated or are under community supervision.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acquiring a second chance provides people with dignity and allows them to achieve their potential as contributing members of our community. This allows individuals to gain closure after their time is served and provides them with the ability and support necessary to avoid future criminal behavior. Barriers that prevent someone from accessing employment, housing, and education are bad for the individual, our communities, and our economy. Living Proof and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quality Wash have developed a simple and speedy OJT and workforce development program that facilitates fast and meaningful day labor that give dignity while reducing recidivism rates in underserved communities.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through our Entrepreneurship, Education and Exchange (EEE) at Living Proof we guide and mentor our partners into achieving their business and social goals. We are proud of our work with underserved communities, assisting them in their fight for equity and equal access business and education opportunities; to become community and business leaders. \u00a0 Quality Wash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6397,"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/6397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivingproof.org\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}