Working Bridges for Employers

Why Working Bridges?

A good, steady, reliable job helps put people on a path to financial stability. Life issues can overwhelm a good employee’s ability to get to work, be fully present at work and succeed at work. The United Way Working Bridges team consists of core group of highly skilled resource coordinators surrounded by support staff. Together this team leverages the United Way infrastructure, which includes an extensive network of non-profit organizations and employers, to provide resource navigation support to employees at participating worksites. Through Working Bridges, employers reduce barriers to employment and support employees’ needs to be successful and improve their lives. When workers and employers are stable and thriving, the overall wellbeing of communities is strengthened.

What is Working Bridges Resource Coordination?

• Confidential one-on-one support navigating community resources at work.

• Help with affordable housing, child care, health care, legal support, transportation, financial coaching, education, mental health, etc.

• Tele-interpreter available as needed for multiple languages.

• Onsite – and available across all shifts.

• Remote service delivery available during emergencies like natural disasters and pandemics.

• Available by phone & email when not onsite (shared RC across multiple workplaces).

“We know there’s a lot of opportunities for people to move around in manufacturing. So how do we differentiate ourselves? The Working Bridges program was one of our best bets.”

-Eric Ciemniewski
Sr. Director of Manufacturing at Teknor Apex Company

“Our number one fundamental is ‘think safe, work safe.’ Most people think that means coming to work and leaving physically intact, but we also need our employees to be mentally and emotionally intact.”

-Michelle Sacco
Director of People and Culture at FoodScience