{"id":177266,"date":"2026-03-04T03:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:49:06","slug":"dress-for-success-careersource-help-change-womens-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177266\/","title":{"rendered":"Dress for Success, CareerSource help change women&#8217;s lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0 Shequila Roberts knows the benefits of a new outfit and just how <a href=\"https:\/\/greaterorlando.dressforsuccess.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dress for Success Greater Orlando<\/a> can help women in need find the perfect fit.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, a single mom with two bachelor\u2019s degrees, previously struggled to find work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lacked confidence, and finding a job was very difficult. When I came in the door with Dress for Success, they treated me like family, helped me find clothes \u2014 and I got a job,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Dress for Success Orlando helps women in need find a confidence boost through free professional clothes and job opportunities<br \/>\n<br \/>The nonprofit teams up with Career Source to help provide resources to prepare women for the workforce and also helps them find job opportunities.<br \/>\n<br \/>Longtime client and now volunteer Shequila Roberts is giving back time to help other women in need<\/p>\n<p>Because of her own experience, Roberts said she is back at Dress for Success Greater Orlando as a volunteer, now paying it forward to help others find the perfect free fit and job opportunity. The nonprofit&#8217;s\u00a0mission is about \u201cEmpowering women to achieve economic independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I just want to help other women and single moms who are having the same experience,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts is not alone. The store shares space with CareerSource.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe serve job seekers, and Dress for Success provides services that really help them become employed,\u201d said Gina Ronokarijo, vice president of workforce operations for CareerSource.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 25 years, Dress for Success Greater Orlando and CareerSource have been working together to change lives for the better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in 2026, women can still benefit from our services \u2014 and we are here to support them without being judged,\u201d Dress for Success Executive Director Joann Febus said.<\/p>\n<p>For Roberts, volunteering at Dress for Success is iabout helping those who have walked in her shoes and look to achieve success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0 Shequila Roberts knows the benefits of a new outfit and just how Dress for Success&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,2297,274,770,28293,54687,115,768,139,141,140,278,835,53989],"class_list":{"0":"post-177266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-app-community","9":"tag-app-everyday-heroes","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-community-news","12":"tag-curtis-mccloud","13":"tag-everyday-heroes","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-orange-county-fl","16":"tag-orlando","17":"tag-orlando-headlines","18":"tag-orlando-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod","21":"tag-womens-history"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}