Northwest Center is pleased to announce that our building and janitorial services social enterprises have a new name: OneNorth Integrated Facility Solutions.

The new name OneNorth Integrated Facility Solutions (OneNorth IFS) embodies a commitment to creating cleaner, better maintained businesses for customers, and captures Northwest Center’s commitment to making business and the world better for people of all abilities.

More Than a Name: A Mission to Believe In
The name OneNorth Integrated Facility Solutions represents all of the existing facility and business services that we offer, and also signifies our commitment to Northwest Center’s mission of inclusion.

• Essential Expertise: There’s no successful business space without the highest level of facility care and maintenance. The word North is often used to signify an upward trajectory, an example to follow, or the highest level. OneNorth IFS works to provide the highest level of services and care to our customers and employees.
• Not Just Services—Solutions: Top-quality facility care comes from a skilled and knowledgeable team that centers solutions on the customer. At OneNorth IFS, our understanding of our customers’ surroundings and businesses is just as thorough as our cleaning, so we can provide services that integrate seamlessly with every operation.
• A Unified Approach: The use of the word One signifies the unity of our facility services into one cohesive identity, while OneNorth indicates that we have one commitment to the highest level of service, care, and inclusion.
• An Homage to Our Roots: North connects our businesses to parent company Northwest Center and reminds us of NWC’s core commitment to disability inclusion. OneNorth IFS supports positive change toward a world where people of all abilities can engage and contribute.  

Learn More about OneNorth IFS
To learn more about the sustainable, environmentally conscious, and meticulous full-service janitorial cleaning, disinfecting, and building maintenance we provide, please visit us at OneNorthIFS.com.

Northwest Center is pleased to welcome Volker “VW” Wellmann as Senior Vice President of Northwest Center Integrated Facility Services (IFS). In this role, Wellmann will lead Northwest Center’s IFS division in providing a range of janitorial and building maintenance services to organizations throughout the U.S., spanning industries including Commercial, Retail, Institutional, Industrial & Distribution, Government and Exterior.

Wellman previously served as Vice President for Kellermeyer Bergenson Services (KBS), where he led the Operations leadership teams in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic area. Previously, he spent eight years with Fortune 200 service company Ecolab as Assistant Vice President, Corporate Accounts, managing commercial products and service programs for corporate-level clients in the facilities, hospitality and healthcare industries. Before joining Ecolab, he was Area Vice President, Field Sales and Service for Swisher Hygiene International, where he identified and brought to market new product lines and profit centers for a private equity group and led national sales and marketing initiatives.

As Senior Vice President, Wellmann will drive growth at Northwest Center Integrated Facility Services, one of Northwest Center’s key social enterprises with more than 30 years of experience providing expert commercial services to customers while also generating funds to support Northwest Center’s services for people with disabilities.
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“I’m incredibly excited to have VW join Northwest Center,” says President & CEO Gene Boes.  “His leadership, expertise, and energy will help us exponentially grow the IFS Division and in turn will accelerate our efforts to create the inclusive world we all deserve.”
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To learn more about Northwest Center businesses including IFS, please visit NWCenterBusiness.com

Northwest Center Employment Services is now operating in the state of Idaho, an expansion that will allow us to begin helping people with disabilities find employment opportunities in Kootenai, Shoshone, Benewah, Bonner, and Boundary counties.

Northwest Center Employment Services serves both youth and adult populations at every stage in their careers, and our consultants will work with businesses to find solutions as well—and consultation is free!

“Northwest Center is proud and excited to expand our Employment Services into the state of Idaho,” says Ryan Newell, Regional Director. “With Idaho’s ever-growing economy and abundance of opportunity, we are able to expand our mission and help bridge the unemployment gap for people with disabilities. We are eager to serve.”

Our Employment Services are backed by more than 60 years of experience providing people with disabilities and their employers with support such as:

• Preparation for employment including discovery of talents, goals, and interests
• Person-centered planning
• Job assessments
• Application assistance including building resumes and writing cover letters
• Job development
• On-the-job coaching and job retention support

Partner funding sources for these services will include the Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Foundational Community Supports. We anticipate being able to support individuals in Idaho through additional partnerships with local health and welfare organizations that will be named at a later date.