{"id":6221,"date":"2015-10-08T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2015-10-08T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:41:56","slug":"libertys-kitchen-supports-young-people-on-a-path-to-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/libertys-kitchen-supports-young-people-on-a-path-to-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty&#8217;s Kitchen Supports Young People On A Path To Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/227507045&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Youth Development Program at Liberty\u2019s Kitchen provides participants with occupational and employability skills training, and addresses the social issues that have created barriers to employment.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of the Youth Development Program is to graduate students with a sense of purpose, tools and opportunities needed to thrive in gainful employment.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Johnson gives me a tour around the vast kitchen that is home to Liberty\u2019s Kitchen \u2014\u00a0the caf\u00e9, catering business and youth development program that provides hands-on food service training to vulnerable New Orleans youth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Here we have our meat slicer, the blenders that we usually use,\u201d points Johnson. \u201cHere is where we usually have catering prep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a few hours, Johnson will be graduating from the 16-week Youth Development Program at Liberty\u2019s Kitchen. Johnson is totally at home in this kitchen, where about 20 people slice and simmer and fold sausage bites into triangles of puff pastry dough. This is where Johnson started the program, in back-of-the-house training. For those of you who\u2019ve never worked in a restaurant, that essentially means the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s where we learn how to handle certain knives so we don\u2019t cut ourselves or hurt somebody in the process,\u201d explains Shawn Neuskaeter, who is six weeks into the program.<\/p>\n<p>After back of the house comes front of the house \u2014 where participants learn caf\u00e9 skills, like serving food and customer service. After that, says Tasheena Butler, or Chef T, her students work on career readiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s where they learn how to fill out r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, learn how to go on job interviews, do cover letters, and learn how to be professional,\u201d says Butler.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s the externship: where everything learned at Liberty\u2019s Kitchen is put into practice at another restaurant. Chondra Allen had her externship at Bittersweet Confections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I never thought I would actually enjoy being in the front of house so much, interacting with people,\u201d says Allen. \u201cI never knew it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen is 21, and a few hours away from graduation. For her, the program at Liberty\u2019s Kitchen was a tremendous help in much more than kitchen skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I was a self-isolater,\u201d Allen explains. \u201cSo I wasn\u2019t very talkative and I enjoyed being by myself. But when I got here I started relying on coworkers and fellow students. It helped me progress with my externship because I\u2019m able to ask for help more often, which I wasn\u2019t able to do. And just interact more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from high school, Allen went to college for a year but then quit because she couldn\u2019t afford it. This program, she says, is helping her prepare for what she wants to do in life: cook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>They give us a support system that actually helps build us up,\u201d she says. \u201cThey give you critiques. They don\u2019t beat around the bush, but they don\u2019t give it to you where you take it badly. They give it just right to where you understand and are able to make the changes you need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBring those eggs up to the front,\u201d Butler directs Allen. \u201cGet the rolls out of the freezer. Hopefully then it\u2019ll be time to put noodles into boil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tasheena Butler hustles her students around the kitchen as they prepare the graduation meal they\u2019ve chosen: Cajun Cobb salad, macaroni and cheese, and fruit salad. Chef T says her students work hard to get to this point. Many don\u2019t make it to graduation. So for those that do, this is a proud day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>There needs to be a dozen more programs like this,\u201d says Butler. \u201cAnd even then I\u2019m not sure it would fill the need. So anything that\u2019s positive, anything that\u2019s going to put them on a path to self-sufficiency and enlightenment, is a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyskitchen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty&#8217;s Kitchen<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Youth Development Program at Liberty\u2019s Kitchen provides participants with occupational and employability skills training, and addresses the social issues that have created barriers to employment. The objective of the Youth Development Program is to graduate students with a sense of purpose, tools and opportunities needed to thrive in gainful employment. 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