Henderson mother finds help, optimism through HopeLink

Diane Parkinson was unemployed 2 years agone and acrophobic she mightiness go stateless done the winter. The New York City autochthonal and parent of 2 called HopeLink, which enactment her beingness backmost connected track, she said.

HopeLink is simply a nonprofit successful Henderson that works to get residents backmost connected their feet done lodging assistance and nutrient pantries. Caseworkers enactment Parkinson, 43, and her 13-year-old girl into exigency lodging successful Henderson and referred her to CareerLink, a subsection of HopeLink that helps with resumes and works with section employers to get clients interviews.

“These ladies are precise supportive,” Parkinson said. “I felt bad. I felt similar a loser getting retired into the enactment tract and not having a solution, but they ever springiness maine bully accusation and resources.”

Parkinson said CareerLink helped her cleanable up her resume, which includes respective jobs successful the aesculapian tract and clip astatine a warehouse printing shop. Parkinson has struggled to support a occupation portion she navigates her teenage daughter’s struggles with intelligence health.

“From time 1 Diane was motivated to re-enter the occupation field,” HopeLink wrote successful a connection to the Review-Journal. “We met galore times, and each clip made steps person to employment.”

Now, Parkinson said she would similar to enactment remotely and enactment astatine location with her teen and her big daughter’s caller baby, but she’ll instrumentality anything, including retail, accelerated nutrient oregon telephone centers. She’s hoping to prevention capable wealth to decorativeness her bachelor’s grade successful the adjacent fewer years and find a imperishable career.

In the meantime, Parkinson is applying for Section 8 lodging and checks successful regular with CareerLink employees for caller opportunities and occupation fairs.

“It’s been great,” she said. “They ever cheque successful connected me. If they didn’t perceive from maine they sprout maine an email. I similar the information that they’re intuitive and ever making definite that their clients are OK. A batch of radical don’t care.”

This communicative was produced successful concern with the United Way of Southern Nevada arsenic portion of the “Everyone Deserves Hope” effort to assistance section families this vacation season. To contribute, sojourn uwsn.org/hope.

Contact Sabrina Schnur astatine sschnur@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0278. Follow @sabrina_schnur connected Twitter.