Vocational Training

in the Bakery

    The York County Shelter Programs Food Services Department provides vocational training for homeless persons while preparing and distributing meals to hungry people through two Free Meals Kitchens, Shelter Residential Facilities and our Food Pantry.  This amounts to almost 67,000 meals per year, plus an average of 39 food boxes per day that are distributed to low-income families from our Food Pantry at the Bakery at Notre Dame.

 

    Through the Vocational Training Program at the Bakery at Notre Dame, clients can

learn a trade in catering, baking, or cooking.  Clients learn how to work as a team, show up

on time, and how to present themselves in the workforce.

Kyle has learned to make  a “mean chowdah.”

Michael Jubinsky from Stone Turtle Baking and Cooking School in Lyman, Maine,  shares his expertise on making crusty breads.

Dan cheerfully agrees to help with the “egg detail.”

Nick has learned how to make many pastries and baked goods.

Martha Huestis is the Food Services Director.

Various staff members enjoyed learning from Michael Jubinsky from Stone Turtle Baking and Cooking School in  Lyman, Maine.

Volunteers help to pack a donation of chicken for the Food Pantry.