Mission:

To provide adults that are unemployed or underemployed, the professional skills required to achieve a successful career in the foodservice industry.

Vision:

When given the proper foundation, training, and opportunity to achieve, anyone is capable of success. Our culinary job training program provides all three of these essential elements.

Marketplace Need:

The demand for qualified food service personnel has increased significantly, providing opportunities for work in a variety of settings including restaurants, grocery chains, hospitals, hotels, schools, and catering.

Program:

Our nine-week culinary job training program is offered five times a year. Enrollment is limited to five students per session to ensure each student's success. Our program provides hands-on culinary training by a professional chef.

The curriculum teaches the skills required by foodservice

employers and includes:

Professional Knife Skills

Basic Cooking Skills

Food Safety and Sanitation

Life Communications Skills

Job placement support is provided during our program

Community Impact:

As part of the LAHIA Culinary Pathway program, students will be preparing meals for the LAHIA community. Currently, LAHIA provides approximately 850+ meals per

week to the homeless and food insecure population in the Stuart/Port Salerno area of Martin County. The program

will also be a conduit through which community relationships are developed and nurtured as LAHIA reaches

out to other non-profit organizations and the people they serve. Our neighborhood collaborations create ways to nourish the community while empowering it's residents.

Support:

Through the generous contributions of our supporters, our students can participate in this transformational program

tuition-free. Your tax-deductible gift helps change lives by creating a pathway for the career success of our graduates while supporting the ongoing operating costs of the LAHIA

Culinary Pathway program.