My name is Matt Kline, you may have seen me working the register at Penny Pinchers Thrift Store during the day over the past few months. I wanted to take a moment to let you know how I got here. My story starts when I was 16 years old. I was a juvenile delinquent going in and out of jail every month. I was on probation with the coolest probation officer (P.O.) anyone could have. His name was Tim Hendricks. I was getting into a lot of trouble on probation. I was doing drugs and alcohol every day so my P.O. sent me to treatment.
After I got out I straightened up my life. My P.O. asked me if I would be interested in a job and I said “YES!” I got a job through Workforce Solutions at Penny Pinchers. As I started to prove to them that I was hard worker, my manager Donna Siech offered me a job working for NYFS, and that is my story. I started from a juvenile delinquent and turned into a hardworking man, thanks to: Tim Hendricks, Kelly Higgens, Donna Siech, Jo Sander, Jim Rider, and other NYFS employees.