Mission, Vision & Values

Our Mission:

Workshops, Inc. enriches lives by providing vocational training, employment opportunities and support services to people with disabilities in Central Alabama.

Our Vision:

Every person with a disability in Central Alabama who wants a job gets a job.

Our Values:

Workshops, Inc. is oriented toward service excellence, and is dedicated to providing the best service possible to our consumers (the people with disabilities we serve) and to our business customers. Even as a leader in our field, we know that Workshops, Inc. is a work in progress, and therefore we will continue to strive for improvement in the way we deliver services to our consumers and business customers, in our communication with donors and the community, and in the ways we train our staff.

Our Consumers:

We view the people with disabilities we serve as people of infinite worth and believe that each person has something valuable to offer to the world. We will treat each consumer with compassion and respect, and will strive to provide the best individualized service possible to help each person achieve his/her full potential.

Our Business Customers:

We are grateful for our business customers who choose to partner with Workshops to achieve our common goals. We recognize that we could not achieve our mission without the support of these valuable customers, and we will provide each customer with excellent service, quality work and timely completion.

Our Staff:

We value a competent and experienced staff from diverse backgrounds, where compassion is a core value. We believe in the value of teamwork and acknowledge that we can accomplish more together than as individuals. Understanding that we live in a dynamic society, we encourage staff to regularly participate in training opportunities and to bring innovation to service delivery.

Our Financial Supporters and Community:

Workshops, Inc. strives to be transparent in all of its business practices, communicating proactively and honestly with our constituents and working within our community to promote philanthropy with integrity.

The unemployment rate for people with disabilities is more than 50% greater than for people without disabilities

People with disabilities constitute the nation's largest minority group, and the only group any of us can become a member of at any time

Of 70 million families in the United States, more than 20 million have at least one family member with a disability

The unemployment rate of people with disabilities is ten times greater than the national unemployment rate

People with disabilities are nearly twice as likely as people without disabilities to have an annual household income of $15,000 or less

According to the U.S. Department of Education, workers with disabilities are rated consistently as average or above average in performance, quality and quantity of work, flexibility, and attendance.

Alabama has the second highest rate of disability in the U.S.