Productive Alternatives Serves Brainerd Lakes Area

Kevin Larson, Branch Manager of Productive Alternatives in Brainerd, Minnesota discusses serviced provided to the area…

Kevin: "The Brainerd branch of Productive Alternatives has been open since 1997, and during that time, we have placed literally hundreds and hundreds of people into different types of employment in the community.

You're looking at our production area here, where we do contract labor. We can do packaging, assembly tasks, collating for printing companies. We have prime products that we work with that Productive Alternatives actually owns. We sell some of those prime products to places like Gander Mountain, Fleet Farm, different businesses like that in the community. We have a loading dock here and fork lift, so we're able to get things in and out of the building on pallets, and we can take on pretty much any contracted assembly-type task that you'd be interested in us looking at.

Another aspect of Productive Alternatives here in Brainerd is our Community Employment Services. We have people go out into the community. We do contracted work for a lot of different businesses throughout the area. We have a placement specialist on staff who does supportive employment placement services through Vocational Rehabilitation Services and also through the waiver. And she finds people competitive employment out in the community where they're employer paid.

For our community sites, we have a fleet of vehicles here that we use to get people to and from work. We also work really close with the city bus service, contract with them to move people to their work. When we place people in competitive employment we also provide ongoing long-term supports for them. They have case management services through us and job coaches that go out and work with them and visit them at the actual work site.

Here at our Brainerd branch, we're always looking for work opportunities for people. If you have anything that you would like packaged or assembled, cleaned, we are always looking to do contracted labor. Also out in the community, I know right now that there's a lot of places that are posting help wanted signs, and we can come into your business. We can do contracted work, or we could possibly set you up with an employee. We have people that have worked at our branch here for 20 years, so we're always looking for good people as well.

If you're interested in working in the rehabilitation field, feel free to click on the link below, and you can get in touch with us, and we'd be glad to talk to you."

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