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- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Haglid and other students learned how to use knives in cooking, correct food preparation, and how to make the five foundational “mother” sauces and other skills.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
The program also teaches teamwork, work ethic and time management
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Those kinds of life skills, also called “soft skills,” are taught to “make sure that folks are really familiar with what is expected of them in the workplace to maintain employmen…
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
“Getting a job is the easiest part, sometimes. It’s maintaining that job.”
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
At the end of the program, students are provided an entry-level job through the state restaurant association.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Haglid is an apprentice at a nearby hotel, where she receives a paycheck and additional training as a cook.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
“This program meant everything to me because…it was a way for me to get not my life back, but a life to begin with,” Haglid said.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Attending the culinary school started to “bridge the gap of restora tion between me and my kids.” Haglid was able to attend the classes through a U.S.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Department of Labor program called HOPES, Hospitality Opportunities for People Reentering Society.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
HOPES is operated through the National Restaurant Association Education Foundation (NRAEF), an industry group, which partners with community organizations like the Delaware Food B…
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
The group’s goal with HOPES is to get incarcerated people training and jobs in the restaurant industry. Rob Gifford is president of the NRAEF.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
He said restaurant jobs help prevent recidivism, the word for returning to prison.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Gifford said food service jobs help people released from prison get work and a way to earn money as soon as possible.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Food service, he said, has a “relatively low barrier to entry,” compared to other jobs that might require more training.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Since prisons provide food service, there is already a place to provide training. And unlike other work, restaurant jobs often do not require college or even high school degrees.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
“We’re allowing these individuals to get on their feet quickly via the restaurant industry, but we're giving them transferable skills Gifford said.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
“When they decide they're ready to move on to their next opportunity they’re positioned for success.” Employment for formerly imprisoned people is very important to prevent recidi…
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
The NRAEF says that formerly imprisoned people who maintained a job for the first year following their release had a 16 percent recidivism rate over three years.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
That is compared to a 52 percent recidivism rate for those that did not maintain employment.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
The unemployment rate for people formerly incarcerated is more than six times the national rate.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Gifford said about 1000 people have gone through the HOPES program nationwide, and two-thirds are currently employed.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
Haglid, who said she is regaining custody of her children, plans to continue her work in restaurants and one day lead a kitchen as a chef.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
She also said she wants to support the educational and job training programs that helped her find work. She said the programs are needed to prevent recidivism and provide hope for…
- Public domaingeneral-american
Cooking School Provides Hope for Future
“When you realize you have the ability to learn, (it) almost creates a hunger in you where you want to absorb as much as you possibly can,” Haglid said. “You begin to have a drive…
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