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Open Door Community House

Opening doors of faith, hope and opportunity since 1935.

Opening doors of faith, hope and opportunity since 1935.

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Community Ministries of Open Door:

  • Mathews Promise Academy
  • The Culinary Arts Institute of Open Door

Mathews Promise Academy:

          

This ministry is free to all children and youth ages 5-17, based on income eligibility. The program serves children of parents who earn less than the federal poverty guidelines. Children’s programming includes daily devotionals, arts and crafts, sports and recreation, homework assistance, reading and math tutoring, field trips, and community service activities.  The after-school program focuses on reading development and includes a volunteer-led reading program and “JUMP!” a program designed to help children read beyond their current grade level. The program becomes a full-day schedule of activities during the summer (called “Summer Academy”) and all school breaks.

 

The Culinary Arts Institute of Open Door

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The Culinary Arts Institute includes a 20-week training program of culinary arts and life skills for homeless and impoverished men and women taught in a Christian environment. The program empowers graduates to obtain employment at a living wage. Vital community partnerships for this program’s success include Feeding the Valley Food Bank (providing a commercial kitchen), and local employers. Graduates of the culinary arts training program can earn as much as $6 more per hour than they were at the beginning of the program and serve in restaurants and hotels across the city. Culinary arts graduates have a greater chance of earning living wage employment if they successfully pass the ServSafe class and exam, which is offered at no charge for the students in our program.

The Institute also teaches soft skills, life skills, customer service skills, job readiness, resume writing, and mock job interviews.

We are honored to be a member of The Jacques Pépin Foundation Community Kitchen Program, making life-long differences in people’s lives.

“We are all equal in the eyes of the stove.” Jacques Pépin

 

 

 

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