第2919期: ECHO empowers individuals with disabilities to achieve employment

ECHO was instituted in 1975, and it originally stood for "Every Citizen Has Opportunities".

ECHO成立于1975年，全称是"Every Citizen Has Opportunities"。

And we provide skill-building, job placement, day support, and transportation to individuals with disabilities.

我们还为残疾人提供技能培训、就业安置、日间支持和交通服务。

Our mission is to empower each individual to achieve their optimal level of personal, social and economic success.

我们的使命是助力每个人在个人、社交及经济层面实现最佳成就。

Today, we are working here at MAC Aerospace. We're working on their inventory, which is one of the jobs that we have here for our participants.

如今我们在MAC Aerospace工作。我们正在清点他们的库存， 这是我们为参与者准备的工作之一。

And we count the inventory, we label it, and if it needs to be re-boxed, we can re-box it as well.

我们清点存货，贴上标签，如果需要的话，我们也可以重新装箱。

Today, we're counting screws. Everybody has a process. Everybody does it differently.

今天，我们要数螺丝钉。每个人都有自己的一套流程。每个人的工作方式都不同。

So I have to come in and learn the process, and then I teach the process to the participants.

我必须来学习这个过程，然后再把这个过程传授给参与者。

They're capable of anything. They can do anything as long as they trained properly. And that's my job.

他们什么都能做。只要训练得当，他们就能做任何事。而训练他们就是我的工作。

Becky, how's it going? Are you finding every piece? Yeah? So make sure some of the smaller pieces tend to fall at the very bottom.

贝基，怎么样了？每个都找到了吗？要确认一些较小的，它们通常会落在最底部。

So if you need to, you can take things out and move them around, but I promise you every piece is in there,okay?

如果你需要的话，可以把东西拿出来重新摆放，但我保证每一样东西都在里面，好吗？

I was in Phoenix, Arizona with my parents until my parents passed away. I moved here in October, last October.

在我父母去世之前，我一直和他们待在亚利桑那州的凤凰城。我是去年十月搬到这里的。

We currently serve around 207 individuals with disabilities. The assessment center helps determine different aptitudes and interests.

我们目前为大约207名残疾人提供服务。评估中心帮助确定人们不同的能力和兴趣。

It has a number of different modules, for which we put people through in various industries.

它有很多不同的模块， 我们让不同行业的人去体验这些模块。

And as you saw, Amy was very good at that. She's quite skilled at rolling napkins, silverware into napkins.

如你所见，艾米很擅长这个。她非常熟练于将餐具卷进餐巾里。

So for instance, she might be a good fit for our hospitality, our dish washing and restaurant services.

因此她可能非常适合接待、洗碗和餐厅服务工作。

What is something that's not appropriate to wear to work? A bathing suit or a swim suit not appropriate.

什么东西不适合穿去上班？泳衣不适合。

Finding a job is a desire and a goal of theirs, not everyone. So a lot of the participants that we work with here in the Academy have expressed a desire to get a job.

找工作是他们的愿望和目标，虽然不是每个人都是这样想。我们学院合作的许多参与者都表达了找工作的意愿。

So we kind of work on a lot of the soft skills that is required when one gets a job. 

我们主要培养一些求职时所需的软技能。