Community Kitchen
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The Community Kitchen®
program provides culinary job training to low-income men and women to prepare
them for careers in the food service industry. During their training,
students also develop valuable life and professional skills including goal
establishment, resumé writing, interviewing skills, conflict management and
budgeting to help them gain and sustain employment after graduation.
As the students work to achieve their own self-sufficiency, they also serve their communities, producing hundreds of nutritious meals for a variety of social service agency feeding programs such as Kids Cafes®, youth and senior centers, shelters and community dining rooms.
The Community Kitchen program is an innovative, exciting, and cost-efficient way to feed the hungry, train the unemployed, generate public support, create greater economies of scale, and challenge inaccurate stereotypes of the men, women, and children we serve.
Fast Facts
- There are currently 21 Community Kitchen programs in operation.
- Nationwide, the program graduates more than 600 students each year and helps them find employment in the foodservice industry.
- The Community Kitchen program boasts a 58 percent job retention rate over six months for program graduates.
- In 2006, students served 4.7 million meals.
- 1,150 students enrolled in Community Kitchen programs in 2006.
For more information about Community Kitchen
programs, please contact Mitzi Baum at 312.641.6842 or at mbaum@secondharvest.org.
