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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #788 |
| Culinary Education and Training for At-Risk Youths (CETARY) Program |
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| Requester: |
Peter James |
Organization: |
Johnson & Wales University |
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| Project Title: |
Culinary Education and Training for At-Risk Youths (CETARY) Program |
Date Submitted |
12/26/2007 10:47:15 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Margolis |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| This program attracts participants from around the state and graduates are employed at various restaurants and hotels statewide. |
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| Recipient: |
Johnson & Wales University |
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Contact: |
Peter James |
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1701 NE 127th Street |
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Contact Phone: |
(305) 892-7000 |
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North Miami 33181 |
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Contact email: |
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| Counties: |
Miami-Dade |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| Johnson & Wales University (JWU) is a private, not-for-profit, post-secondary institution and is the largest foodservice and hospitality educator in the world. JWU is ideally and uniquely positioned to implement a full range of education and training programs to suit the needs of economically disadvantaged youth in Miami-Dade County. The significant demand for tourism and hospitality products ad services throughout the State provides employment opportunities for trained and educated individuals in the field of culinary arts. The Advanced Standing Program is a twelve month program that prepares students in pursuit of an Associate�s Degree and offers the Culinary Education and Training for At-Risk Youths (CETARY). Rather than the usual 18 month period to receive an Associate�s Degree, the twenty-six degree transfer credits are achieved over only twelve months with the CETARY program as its basis. The program, which started in 1998 with the assistance of the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Delinquency Reduction Efforts, is a nine-month hands-on culinary arts education and training program designed to offer youth, who have been determined to be at-risk, a useful skill development and new opportunities for positive personal/professional growth. JWU has partnered with Bay Point School, an alternative boarding school that provides educational, vocational, and therapeutic services to teenage boys whose behavior has led them into anti-social or criminal activity, and the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court to identify youths to participate in this program each year. The University has enjoyed great success with this program (there is a 98% job placement rate) and its reach is felt statewide. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| The benefits of this program include less student dependence on government for financial assistance, reduction in unemployment, increase tax dollars in state, increase in productive citizens in all communities within the state. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$400,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$632,500 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local, Private, Federal |
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Cash Amount |
$ |
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In-kind Amount |
$232,500 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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Yes |
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Fiscal Year: |
2000-2001 |
Amount: |
$100,000 |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$400,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
According to the State Attorney�s Office, in addition to a low number of outside treatment providers |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Broward County Legislative Delegation |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
