MARKET PROJECT INC
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Mission Statement
We build sustainable businesses and create workplaces that are transformative and dignity-affirming for survivors of complex trauma.
About This Cause
The Market Project started when a group of people saw firsthand a critical gap in the aftercare of trauma survivors. They lacked a viable pathway to a sustainable job within a workplace that promoted healing. We were founded by individuals with varied experience: business creation, re-entry of those formerly incarcerated, and bearing witness to the needs of the traumatized. They saw the challenges trauma survivors had finding work that did not re-traumatize. Understanding the impact of trauma on survivors of domestic violence, armed conflict, and human trafficking, they began to see the significant need for training and preparation to ensure trauma survivors could thrive in the workplace. Ten years later, we have… - applied our innovative model of intense, ongoing market research, investment of capital, mentoring, and empowering nationals to learn (and fail) on the job. - integrated trauma healing training and engagement with local mental health resources into the workplace. - seen hundreds of lives changed through real-work experience, skills training, trauma healing, and holistic care that result in reconciliation of relationships with family, friends and community. The sustainability of the business requires ongoing market research, commitment to integrity and employees who learn their jobs well, and are stable. We offer ongoing mentoring and investment in the wellbeing of the men and women. This means there is a greater opportunity to have skilled employees earn out of the business. We believe we have proven this innovative model is replicable – the business may be unique, and the culture may be quite different, but the human need for healthy relationships, the ability to provide for ourselves and loved ones, and a realization that healing, justice and supportive community remains the same.