Empowerment & Education >>

The Campus Kitchens Project is about more than meals. At our core is the belief that our meals and volunteer energy will be more powerful when combined with empowering education like culinary job training, nutrition education, and healthy cooking classes for families. Each Campus Kitchen is encouraged to develop programming that empowers their meal recipients and meets their community’s specific needs. CKP has developed curricula and support for several empowerment programs. Two examples are:

• Culinary Job Training: our Culinary Job Training Program works in partnership with local direct service agencies, and is designed to provide unemployed and underemployed men and women with the opportunity to learn new job skills. Trainees commit to an eight-to-ten-week program where they learn food service skills, study safety and sanitation, and learn skills to help them with resume writing, interviewing, and job hunting. Our trainees work as part of the Campus Kitchen team. As they learn, their hard work goes into the production of meals for our clients.
• Nutrition Education: Students from around the country have developed lessons that teach children and families about nutrition, food choices, and healthy cooking on a budget. CKP has compiled these lessons into a curriculum that is available to all Campus Kitchens, offering everything from recipes to handouts on topics from the nutrition pyramid to cooking “heart healthy soul food” to the importance of local food systems and agriculture.
  

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