Overwhelmed with animals and unable to hire enough workers to care for them, the Fort Worth Animal Shelter recently found a unique solution — by reaching out to a homeless shelter.
"I like it a lot. I mean you get to work with animals all day," Edmonds said.
She started working for Upspire about a year ago and just got promoted to supervisor making $16 an hour plus benefits at the shelter. "I came over from waste management,” she said. “It was a bit of a switch for me. I used to work on the back of the trash trucks." Upspire started several years ago with just two homeless people picking up litter and it has since expanded to about 100 workers in a wide variety of jobs like those at the animal shelter.
"This program is not just about cleaning kennels,” Bennett said. “It's about life success and it's good to be a part of that."
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