Opportunity House seeks to create and maintain a comfortable and inclusive workplace by maintaining an environment that is free from all forms of harassment, discrimination, or other improper conduct. Opportunity House will not allow any form of harassment, discrimination, or any other improper conduct that has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual’s overall safety, wellbeing, and/or ability to perform their job duties. While Opportunity House respects the personal beliefs of all employees, interns, contractors and volunteers, individuals who access services, vendors, and other business entities with whom Opportunity House contracts for services, these personal beliefs are prohibited from impacting the actual or perceived safety and inclusion of all those with whom Opportunity House engages.

In its commitment to inclusion, Opportunity House will recruit, hire, train, promote, and provide conditions of employment, volunteer activities, and access to services without regard to one’s perceived or actual identity or group membership. Opportunity House stives to be free of any discriminatory conduct and avoid exclusionary practices or harassment in employee relations, in providing services, or in determining the populations and individuals served. Opportunity House will not in any way, implicitly or explicitly, promote, advocate, or instigate an ideology or environment that pits groups of people against each other or uses threats, intimidation, or violence to advance its causes.

Harassment, discrimination, or other improper conduct is strictly prohibited. Under this policy, harassment is verbal, written, or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of one’s perceived or actual identity or group membership.

This inclusion policy applies to all applicants and employees, interns, contractors and volunteers, individuals who access services, vendors, or other business entities with whom Opportunity House contracts for services, whether related to conduct engaged in by fellow employees or by someone not directly connected to Opportunity House.