A Goodwill program in Georgia is helping residents gain the skills needed to fill critical jobs in the healthcare industry, a field projected to face a shortage of more than 187,000 physicians nationwide by 2037.
The Goodwill Opportunity Accelerator Program provides unemployed and underemployed individuals with training for in-demand careers, including medical coding. For Lenora Witherspoon, the program offered a fresh start after major life changes.
Witherspoon relocated to Atlanta to care for her mother while going through a divorce and soon after, lost her job. “To have to start all over again in a whole new state was terrifying,” she said…