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June 18, 2007CHEFS Program Trains Homeless Adults in Culinary Skills |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: For the third year in a row, members of San Francisco's food community have joined forces to organize SummerTini, a benefit on Friday, June 22nd for the CHEFS program of Episcopal Community Services (ECS). Hundreds of graduates work in board and care, restaurants, hotels, and nursing homes. Today more than 85 percent of the students who complete the CHEFS program acquire jobs, which is a tremendous rate given the complex challenges associated with chronic homelessness that many face. Eric Tucker, Executive Chef of Millennium restaurant and a driving force behind SummerTini, sees the benefit of the program first-hand. Started 24 years ago with the opening of the Sanctuary, an emergency shelter for 200 homeless adults, ECS has grown to 10 permanent supportive housing sites for 1,000 formerly homeless individuals and families, 2 large shelters helping 500 people a night, senior services and a skills center providing education and training. Providing ongoing case management support, access to physical and mental healthcare, and employment services has made a strategic difference in the lives of the chronically homeless people served by ECS. It's an event where you can do good, feel great and have lots of fun," said Pablo Wong, President of ECS's Board of Directors.
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