Buckelew Programs

Buckelew Employment Services offers a comprehensive approach to assisting people to secure and maintain employment. Services include pre-employment counseling, vocational training, job development, placement, and job-coaching. Our Blue Skies Personnel Services is a staffing service that places qualified clients in temporary and permanent jobs through collaboration with local businesses and government agencies. Blue Skies Cleaning Service is a janitorial business (going GREEN in 2009) that provides clients with training and paid employment. Buckelew is participating in the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program; this new program provides Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities greater opportunities for employment. Blue Skies Café is located at 3240 Kerner Boulevard, in the lobby of the Health and Wellness campus in San Rafael. The café serves organic coffees and healthy, seasonal, organic salads, sandwiches, muffins, cookies (made daily) and more. Please visit the café soon.

HOW TO ENTER OUR PROGRAMS

Buckelew provides employment services to adults with mental illness in Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties.

Marin:

For information on employment services call Steve Hon at 415-456-9350 ext 104 or email him at steveh@buckelew.org

Buckelew Employment Services (BES) can accept clients directly; a referral from the county Mental Health Department is not necessary. To qualify you must be a Marin resident, be 18 years or older and have a mental illness.

All interested may attend an optional free orientation meeting held at noon, every Tuesday located at 3270 Kerner Blvd., Suite A in San Rafael.

Sonoma:

For information on employment services call Katrin Ciaffa at (707) 571-5593 or email her at katrinc@buckelew.org

Napa:

For information on employment services call Chuck Mottern at (707) 253-2655 or email him at chuckm@buckelew.org