Focus on Food – Pathways to Youth Employment

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”27096″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][advlist icon_type=”typicons” icon_color=”#898989″ icon_font_size=”20″ content_font_weight=”700″ icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-group”]Project Partner: Food Share Toronto[/advlist][advlist icon_type=”typicons” icon_color=”#898989″ icon_font_size=”20″ content_font_weight=”700″ icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-flag”]Languages: English[/advlist][vc_message message_box_color=”alert-success” icon_type=”entypo” icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-progress-3″]COMPLETE – 2015[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][spacing desktop_height=”40″ mobile_height=”30″ smobile_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Along with support from CERIC, FoodShare Toronto received a two-year grant in 2010 from The Counselling Foundation of Canada for its Pathways to Youth Employment program. FoodShare Toronto is a non-profit community organization whose vision is Good Healthy Food for All. This organization takes a multi-faceted, innovative, and long-term approach to hunger and food issues. At FoodShare Toronto they work on food issues “from field to table” – meaning that they focus on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the growing, processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and consumption. The funding allowed FoodShare Toronto to hire a co-ordinator to work with local food service business to ensure that the program’s training makes youth job-ready for those businesses. The learnings gathered in this process were used to develop a program manual to be shared with other organizations across the country looking to create youth employment opportunities based on food services.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][spacing desktop_height=”40″ mobile_height=”30″ smobile_height=”30″][vc_separator color=”custom” style=”dashed” border_width=”2″ accent_color=”#cccccc”][spacing desktop_height=”40″ mobile_height=”30″ smobile_height=”30″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_single_image image=”14133″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”4/5″][vc_column_text]

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][spacing desktop_height=”40″ mobile_height=”30″ smobile_height=”30″][vc_separator color=”custom” style=”dashed” border_width=”2″ accent_color=”#cccccc”][spacing desktop_height=”40″ mobile_height=”30″ smobile_height=”30″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This manual provides insight into how this program works and the components of this innovative youth employment program. It includes a detailed elaboration of why and how the Focus on Food – Pathways to Youth Employment program was designed as well as a breakdown of its policies and procedures. Content about the program’s placement model is also provided along with templates of the various administrative and marketing forms used in this initiative.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]