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Farm-to-Fork Job Training

The Good Samaritan Inn offers job skills training to the unemployed and underemployed in our community.

We provide hands-on farm-to-table job training to transition community members from unemployment to self-sufficiency. Through Mercy Programs, students will be introduced to areas such as growth of local foods, food preservation, preparing healthy meals using local flavors, plant nutrition, and community development through local food production systems.

By repurposing abandoned inner-city lots into urban farms producing vegetables and providing work opportunities through our Mercy Gardens, we are revitalizing our neighborhood.

This style of training capitalizes on the growing knowledge and skills it takes to be employed in local businesses and organizations. Our work is a combination of both functional skills and soft skills such as interviewing skills, expectations of an employer, dress codes, and interpersonal skills.

How do students benefit from Mercy Programs?

  • Earn food handlers’ certificates with the assistance of certified chefs as instructors

  • Receive hands-on culinary and horticulture training to develop skills

  • Benefit from a curriculum including horticulture training, culinary training and soft skills development

  • Develop skills such as working with others, accountability, punctuality, dress codes, resume building, communication, interview skills, financial guidance and basic budgeting

  • Gain exposure to innovation, entrepreneurship, and urban revitalization

  • Get the opportunity to revitalize their own communities

In addition to basic job skills training, The Good Samaritan Inn offers Food Handlers’ Training an access to certification. The Food Handlers’ Training provides students with direct, explicit instruction on the material needed to apply for a Food Handlers’ Certificate. At the end of this program, students are supported through case management to help take the test and learn a Food Handlers’ Certificate.