WESTFALL
“Goodwill is Stephanie’s world,” according to one of her past supervisors. In 1984, when Stephanie Westfall’s developmental delays first brought her to Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio for a work evaluation, she lived at home with her parents. In her first job as a processor for one of Goodwill’s retail stores, she learned to sort donations and prepare them for the sales floor.
Stephanie then was hired into Goodwill’s industrial contracts department, where she did a variety of hands-on projects such as packaging pudding packs. But, Stephanie’s real expertise was working in retail as a processor. As the industrial contract jobs wound down, she transferred back into retail to work at the Reynolds Road store in Toledo, Ohio.
Over the years, her job has given Stephanie the ability to become independent. She now lives in and maintains her own apartment and each day takes a one-and-one-half hour bus ride to and from work. She looks forward to and attends all of Goodwill’s special events and employee functions.
