The Abundant Life Kitchen Foodservice Job Training Program provides an opportunity for homeless men and women to gain valuable skills and experience for achieving and maintaining employment in the foodservice industry. Through the 12-week program, participants receive not only foodservice knowledge and skills training but also employability skills training, case management support, and support from the local business community.
Liberty’s Kitchen’s Youth Development Program helps young people access futures that are healthy, self-sufficient, and sustainable. Through life skills and workforce training with our café, coffee bar, catering services, wholesale food production, and school nutrition services, disconnected youth are empowered with the resources, tools, and confidence to transform their lives. Our School Nutrition Program provides undernourished school children with healthy, scratch-made meals prepared fresh onsite at their schools. By ensuring that low-income students have access to better nutrition and nutrition education in school, Liberty’s Kitchen contributes to the fight to end the epidemic of childhood obesity and increase youth achievement.
Our 20-week Culinary Arts Program at the Institute of Open Door offers participants a comprehensive learning experience that covers both life skills and culinary expertise. Through interactive classes, students gain valuable life skills, such as interpersonal, stress and time management, problem-solving, and setting S.M.A.R.T. goals. In a commercial kitchen, our experience chef guides students in gaining fundamental culinary knowledge and mastering essential culinary arts skills. Moreover, participants have the opportunity to obtain their ServSafe Manager Certification through five sessions with a certification exam. In addition, we prepare students for the professional world with a focus on work readiness, including resume building, references, and enhancing dress and interview skills through mock interviews. Our program empowers aspiring culinary artists with the necessary tools and expertise to excel in their careers and achieve success in the industry.
The Culinary Incubator Program at Open Door invites recent graduates of Open Door’s Culinary Skills Program to pursue their entrepreneurial goals in a gently guided fashion. The Program utilities the 10 Week Co.Starters training manual as a base to help participants flesh out their business models, products, plans, and goals so that our graduates will help our community (and themselves) thrive through entrepreneurship. Once Co.Starters is complete, participants are held in “incubation” for a period of time and with a modest stipend, guidance for business formation, and (eventually) use of our community kitchen space.
Our Mission is to alleviate hunger in Palm Beach County.The Palm Beach County Food Bank is committed to being a strong leader for the other stakeholders and organizations that join us in addressing the issues surrounding hunger in Palm Beach County. There is a collective resolve in working together to help children, families and seniors in our community.We are focused on fighting hunger in Palm Beach County through 4 programs – Partner Marketplace, Nutrition Driven, Benefits Outreach, and our Childhood Hunger Initiatives. We support close to 200 partner agencies in Palm Beach County with food, programs, resources and services.Our program is in development to launch in 2023.
12 week culinary program providing basic culinary skills and safe serve certification to very low income and low income persons in the community, primarily with work barriers, such as disability and/or homelessness.Pathlight HOME provides affordable, permanent housing and economic opportunities for low-income persons, and especially the homeless, in the State of Florida. Currently we have programs in Central Florida providing over 530 units of permanent housing to the homeless. We also have a social enterprise program that has a sandwich shop providing opportunities for training and employment to our targeted population. We have just completed an expansion of our social enterprise called Pathlight Enterprises, which has two commercial kitchens and a gluten-free bakery, along with banquet space. In this program, we will be providing our targeted population with job training, supplemental income, work experience and employment opportunities in the culinary field.
In partnership with Our House shelter and Rock City Reentry, Food Jobs Work trains the underemployed for work in hospitality and foodservice through an intensive, 6-week culinary program. Students learn the basics of back-of-house work (sanitation, knife work, sauté, basic cookery) as well as soft skills determined by the US Department of Labor as critical to success in foodservice. And most of all, we restore hope by identifying strengths, encouraging our students, believing in them and lifting them up so they can succeed. At the end of our program, they are placed in employment through our partner organization, Arkansas Food Jobs.
Arc Culinary’s Entry Level Certificate program provides students with a variety of essential skills in order to succeed in a professional kitchen. With hands-on learning, students gain the necessary experience to successfully enter the food service industry in just 16 weeks. Upon completion, students earn an Entry Level Culinary Arts Certificate as well as a Food Handler Food Safety Certificate. Among other things, the program supports students to:
- Gain experience in proper use and maintenance of professional knives, hand tools, and commercial kitchen equipment.
- Become familiar with the layout and workflow of professional kitchens and restaurants.
- Gain appreciation for the history, culture, and international diversity of the culinary arts.
This certificate program provides real-world experience for all students with the opportunity to complete their laboratory experience in a fully operational commercial kitchen. All students enrolled in the Culinary Arts Program must participate in laboratory courses, acquiring and refining their practical culinary skills alongside chef instructors and kitchen staff. Students assist in preparing contract meals and fulfilling catering orders, all while helping fulfill an important social mission within our community. Upon completion of the program, Arc Culinary supports graduates to obtain and maintain successful employment.
Café Hope provides opportunity youth throughout the Greater New Orleans area with the tools needed to enter the real world and succeed. We’ve created a program designed for full-service culinary training partnered with life skills courses and job placement coordination that gives students the tools, skills, and confidence needed to find and retain a job or reenter the education system and become active and engaged members of our society
The Farm to Future project is a culinary arts training program designed to break the cycle of under- or unemployment by providing high-quality, hands-on practical instruction as well as soft skill training designed to create successful entrepreneurs or hospitality industry employees. To be eligible to participate in the program, an applicant must be receiving services from another Palm Beach County nonprofit organization. Extraordinary Charities will leverage its network of nonprofit organizations and its relationships with restaurant and other culinary professionals to link successful graduates with job opportunities. The program will also connect local sources of food such as community gardens and local farmers with individuals in need of food such as group homes for seniors or adults with disabilities or local homeless shelters. Food provided by these partners will be used by trainees to prepare family-style meals that will be distributed to areas of need in Palm Beach County.