Better People needs your help! Please contribute to our work thru: Nike’s Global Giving Campaign - Our project is located here Equity Foundation Work Place Giving Campaign – see their website The Black United Fund of Oregon’s Work Place Giving Campaign. See a video Also we need your contributions in helping us to match the Henry Family Foundation’s grant for $25,000. We have $5000 to go – help us reach this goal.

Better People has consistently helped individuals who have legal histories get their lives back on track since June 15, 1998. Our statistics speak for themselves. Please review our Annual Report. Client testimonies provide personal insights regarding the significance of our process. Thank you for reviewing our web site.

Welcome to Better People.
Better People is an established employment and counseling program solely dedicated to helping individuals who have legal histories find, keep and excel in well paying jobs with fair, decent employers. We only accept job orders from companies that pay a minimum of $9 per hour plus health benefits.

What this means to you is that if you meet us half way by participating in our program, we will not try to place you in a job that does not pay you enough to live on.

Our counseling approach has helped thousands of individuals who have legal histories across the country. It may do the same for you.

Better People offers a complete package of support before and after you have been hired. Please review the following service:

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• Orientation to provide the merits of services to enable a potential client to make an informed decision regarding participation.

• Cognitive behavioral therapy classes using Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT®)

• After attending the first MRT® class, referrals for temporary employment.

• After passing Step One of MRT® clients are required to take Job Readiness classes. Classes are designed from the point of view of individuals who have legal histories as to how to conduct a more effecient and effective job search.

• Once you reach Step Three of the MRT® process, assistance in gaining permanent employment paying a minimum of $9/hr. plus health benefits. THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES, but the majority of clients who meet us half way end up in better paying jobs.

• Once employed, retention services to help the client/employee remain employed long term.

• Clients may continue to get job-placement assistance as long as they are active dues paying members of the Alumni Club. Alumni Dues are merely $25 a year.