Echo Of Brandon Inc

Echo serves neighbors in crisis through personalized, side by side service. Each resource center offers one on one job coaching, in house internships, intensive resource navigation, financial assistance, and emergency food and clothing. Back to work: neighbors are encouraged to participate in one on one job coaching, resume rewrites, mock interviews, and a variety of skill acquisition workshops. Echo currently employs 10 part time job coaches and one full time director. For this fiscal yearend,1316 neighbors received coaching and 264 secured permanent employment.

Advocacy: a cross between a life coach and a social worker, an echo advocate works one on one with neighbors to secure shelter, affordable housing, childcare, transportion options, financial assistance, and/or referrals to community partners. Echo currently employs 7 full time advocates and 5 full time directors. For this fiscal yearend, 485 households found long term solutions via the echo advocacy department.