Success

starts with a

first

Step

Step into job placement and security

The Plan

1. Plan

Schedule an evaluation appointment with our staff. Together we’ll prepare an action plan to improve your training and soft skills as quickly as possible and we’ll help you find the resources to move forward.

2. Prepare

Work the plan! It’s different for all our participants, but can include completing your GED, technical training and improving your soft skills in one of our “Solutions for Success” programs.

3. Proceed

When you’re ready, our job counselors will arrange interviews with local employers that best match your training, skills and aspirations. Our support continues for 6 months after hiring to ensure you’ve got everything you need to succeed.

RVM Brings Together…

Participants

Unemployed, underemployed or post-prison? Add training and soft skills to your resume and we’ll match you with an employer.

Employers

Can’t find workers with the skills your company needs? RVM matches trained workers with companies in Southeast Wisconsin.

Donors

We need you! Underwrite our job coaching and soft skills courses to improve poverty and recitivism in Racine and Kenosha counties.

2023 By The Numbers

2023 showed improvements over 2022 in three of the following four categories:

Participants

Placed in Jobs

Completed Degrees or Are In School

Improved their Job Classification

The RVM Difference

Solutions for Success

We provide classes in “soft skills” employers are looking for, on topics like communication, employer expectations, persistence and positivity. Employees with these skills are more likely to stick with their jobs, find satisfaction in their work and get promoted.

Learn more in our Community Report

Learn more in our Community Report

Call today to take the first step.

262-633-8660

Support for RVM

Transformation is possible!

SC Johnson, an RVM supporter, produced this video highlighting our work to tranform our community one particpant at a time.

Participant honored as Good Samaritan

Program participant Jessica Cortes and her friend Kaitlin Aiken were honored by the Racine County Sherriff for helping save the life of a highway accident victim. The two assisted at the scene of a crash in the fall of 2023, providing CPR on one of the crash victims...

Renewing relationships with growing food

Meet upstart farmers Martice and Amy Kroll-Scales of Scales Family Farm, a two-acre farm plot within Fondy Farm at Mequon Nature Preserve. Martice is a former RVM participant who is passionate about getting people of color a renewed relationship with growing food.

Hope Wesley-Early headshot

From Addiction to Recovery to Job to Career

Hope came to RVM in 2013. She was homeless, struggling with an addiction to heroin and in financial crisis. When Hope started participating in RVM’s training program, she was unsure she could succeed and could not picture a plan for herself. After several years of...
Yahynass Stubs with his children

KVM Rising Star

A love for the streets and the lifestyle that goes with that, led Yahynass to spending the last 15 years in prison. In and out, no stability, no care for life, and no care for himself. Life was about getting what he needed, whether legal or not. In 2021, after...
Prince Abbott in his truck

A willingness to grow and a determination to succeed

Prince came home from prison in February of 2017. He had just finished serving a 21-year sentence. During his incarceration, he decided enough is enough. He voluntarily participated in institution programming to enhance his understanding of the world today. National...