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FareStart: Good Food. Better Lives

Yesterday afternoon, some friends and I enjoyed lunch at a local restaurant called FareStart. With brick walls, high, exposed-beam ceilings, huge picture frame widows, and mezzanine seating it fits right in with the trendy downtown dining landscape. However, despite the look, it is definitely not your ordinary eatery. 

FareStart is a 16-week program providing classroom instruction and on-the-job training for homeless men and women, preparing them for careers in the food service industry.  While culinary training is the foundation, participants also receive individual case management, life skills training, and job placement services.  In addition, housing, meals, clothes, transportation, voicemail and other basic needs are taken care of.  Best of all… after completing the program, over 85% of the graduates find living-wage jobs within 90 days. 

Each year, FareStart helps create nearly 300 success stories of people lifting themselves out of homelessness and poverty.  You can help too, and all you have to do is eat.

-JH

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