Special Feature
Tidy Up, Help the Environment & Support Children & Adults with Disabilities. You can accomplish all three of these goals when you attend the free Celebrate the Family Expo! September 16, 2023 at the Finley Center, Hoover Met Complex and bring your documents your family or business needs securely shredded as well as unwanted electrical devices, such as computers, monitors, and cell phones. For free, Gone For Good, a program of United Ability (formerly United Cerebral Palsy), will securely dispose of it for you!
For 75 years, United Ability has connected children and adults with disabilities to their communities and empowered them to live full and meaningful lives. During the past 33 years, they have empowered adults with disabilities to find meaningful employment and in 2022 helped 1,100 students and adults prepare for and find full or part time employment in the community. The organization helps job seekers ages 16-60+ prepare for competitive employment in manufacturing, hospitality, food service, hospitals, and other industries. United Ability’s Transition and Employment Specialists assist every step of the way from teaching interview and self-advocacy skills to resume develop, onboarding, and support throughout the life of the job. “People with disabilities have all the same needs and wants and desires as everybody else, and that includes meaningful employment,” says Susan Sellers, United Ability’s Chief Executive Officer.
Gone For Good is NAID® AAA-certified and offers secure document destruction and e-waste destruction and recycling. Adults with intellectual and physical disabilities perform these services. All profits from the program are used to support programs at United Ability. The approximately 20 adults who work with Gone For Good not only earn a paycheck and learn useful skills, they also develop a sense of independence and purpose. The program also reaps benefits for the environment. Gone For Good recycles enough paper annually to save more than 18,000 trees!
Secure Document destruction. Gone For Good specializes in both onsite and offsite services and works with clients for both one-time purges and recurring services. Document destruction helps keep businesses in compliance with privacy laws and helps protect them from security breaches and potential lawsuits. Customers can also drop off documents to be shredded Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) between 9 a.m. and Noon.
E-waste recycling. Computers, monitors, cell phones, and TVs are among one of the largest pollution sources on Earth. Gone For Good dismantles, shreds the hard drives, sorts, and diverts the raw materials so they can be used in the manufacture of new products.
At the heart of Gone For Good is its mission to create meaningful employment for adults with physical and intellectual disabilities. Gone For Good also provides a valuable service to assist businesses in protecting their privacy and keeping e-waste out of landfills. Remember, with Gone For Good works, they work for GOOD. Learn more by visiting www.uagoneforgood.com or calling 205-943-5252. †
