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Jacobs Heritage Foundation
Work Force Development
Proposal for Stewards of the Block Pilot Program:
Training in Youth Development, job creation and to establish a Youth Leadership Council for Chicago communities and surrounding suburbs.
Content
Organizational History.................................... p. 2
Introduction
Target population............................................. p. 3 - 4
Population demographics
Problem Statement
Solution............................................................ p. 5 - 6
Who We Are
Mission Statement............................................ p. 6 - 7
Our programs.................................................... p. 7
Seed Money is Needed
Return on Investment for organization............. p. 7 - 8
Cost Analysis and Budget................................. p. 8 - 9
Submitted by
Nathaniel Morgan/Founder
6926 S. Dorchester
Chicago, IL 60637
(773)426-4304
www.jacobsheritage.org
Project period: March 2014 – March 2015
Project summary: The aim of the project is to develop and train a quality group of teens to be
productive in their community and transition youth into members of leadership in the workforce
of Culinary Arts and restaurant operations. The project also aims to train & develop adult/youth
partnerships and job created atmospheres for our youth.
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Workforce development: Youth Culinary Arts Program
Organizational History
We are a 501 ( c ) 3 organization registered in the state of illinois since 2007. from 2007
to 2010 our initial mission was to produce and publish christian books, magazines, and
devotionals. While given a three year span to organize our cause, we were learning the
non profit sector and had our 501 c 3 status revoked in 2011. Jacob's Heritage Foundation
was reinstated in 2013 by the IRS and our status is in good standing with the IRS
database and Guidestar.com, EIN# 20-3460984.
Our cause for christian books, magazines and devotionals were to small and it came to
our attention that most unfortunate people dealing with economic issues may read but
will close our books and depart from our products. Those people will still remain with
desperation and will still have desires to be helped with the tangible necessities for life to
live an be productive individuals.
Since 2010 we have embraced a greater cause in Youth Development and low to no
income communities with little to no work skills. Helping many youth in many
communities is a battle field that are in the faces of those who live in neighborhood
danger zones. We have been involve in Youth Development and helping youth for 4 years
now and given those in need the experience and life skills to be successful youth. Our
activities to our youth have been in the pass dedicated mentoring, etiquette workshops,
resume writing, cooking class, homework matters workshops, community gardening, etc.
Over 75% of organizations on a national level devote their cause into youth support,
economic support , community development, and workforce development and we have
found ourselves to be a part of the solution to a greater cause. Our vision is to help more
youth and their families by creating jobs, offering counseling, shelter problem teens, give
back and be visible in the community, raise money and investors can also inquire.
Introduction
The City of Chicago located in Cook County is a dense, urban population that is home to 2.7
million citizens that make up the 5.3 million in the upper northeastern section of the State of
Illinois, County of Cook. In an urban area of such proportion, it is a human right to have suitable
work opportunity. Suitable work is also important for care of self and families. The City of
Chicago has been hard hit in job creation particularly youth age 16-21. The lack of work for our
youth population has become a linchpin to the mounting violence in our urban areas. Many
juvenile delinquent behaviors not only have to do with lack of parental responsibility but lack of
work opportunity as a right of passage to adulthood. The City of Chicago youth have been
virtually excluded from the workforce particularly African-American and Latino at risk youth. In
fact, “America's young people face record unemployment, and we need to do everything we can
to make sure they've got the opportunity to earn the skills and a work ethic that come with a job.
It's important for their future, and for America's…America's youth can't wait for Congress to act.
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment."— President Barack Obama
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Target population
Low to moderate income job seekers with low basic skill and limited to no work experience.
Our components will provide career awareness and exploration, simulated work environment,
resume preparation, interviewing techniques, soft-skills training, placement and retention
service.
Population demographics:
Youth ages 14 -21 / 200 individuals
Young people who were recently incarcerated and still disaffected "street youth" who survive
through illicit activities such as gangs, drugs, and violence.
Youth who are unemployed, bored, surrounded by negative influences and temptations but are
motivated enough to enroll in programs we offer.
Young people whose tenacity, resiliency, and perseverance have enabled them to succeed in
school and with a permanent job. They are working in jobs with career mobility or are enrolled
in postsecondary education.
Problem Statement
The Daily pointed out in a Friday column that more Chicago residents -- 228 -- have been killed so far
this year in the city than the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan - 144 -- over the same period.
The war zone-like statistics are not new. As WBEZ reports, while some 2,000 U.S. troops have
been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, more than 5,000 people have been killed by gun fire in Chicago
during that time, based on Department of Defense and FBI data. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/chicago-homicide-rate-wor_n_1602692.html
The streets of Chicago are officially more dangerous than a war zone: Homicide victims in the
Windy City outnumber U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this year. While 144 Americans have
died in Afghanistan in 2012, a whopping 228 Chicago residents have been killed, and the murder
rate is up a staggering 35 percent from last year. That’s a rash of homicides quadruple the rate of
New York City’s, and police and crime experts fear it may only get worse. The move comes as Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff, is under
increased pressure to find a way to stem the violence. Last weekend, nine people were killed and 53
were shot, just two weeks after 10 people died and dozens more were wounded in gun-related
mayhem. http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/15/061512-news-chicago-murders-knowles-1-3/
There have been growing concerns about youth unemployment across the country. Teen
unemployment is at a record high, and every summer in Chicago there is a dire concern about the
raise in violence soon after the school season ends, and unemployed teens embrace their idleness
of time.
Besides idled time and unemployment, there are other variables that our youth are confronted with that are wounds without band-aids. Variables that consist to be etched in stone among underprivileged urban communities and socioeconomic deprivation are, low self esteem, lack of positive adult male role models, low academic achievement, high number of female-headed households and family disengagement.
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Centers For American Progress Young Americans today are confronted by an unemployment crisis unlike any we have seen in recent times. To say that these Americans are having a difficult time entering today’s labor market is an understatement. As recent reports have documented, the unemployment crisis facing young Americans takes many forms, including high school students who are having a harder time finding afterschool jobs, twenty-somethings who are increasingly stuck in unpaid internships instead of paying jobs, and college graduates who are settling for low-wage, low-skill jobs such as waiting tables or serving coffee.
While each of these is evidence of the troubles facing young workers, none lays out the full
scope of the nation’s youth-unemployment crisis. The reality is that youth unemployment is a
much bigger problem than lawmakers have acknowledged. According to our analysis, there are
more than 10 million Americans under the age of 25 who are currently unable to find full-time
work—a number greater than the population of New York City, a city of about 8 million people.
As we have written before, America’s youth-unemployment crisis will have serious, enduring
costs for individuals, society, businesses, and all levels of government. At 16.2 percent, the
unemployment rate among Americans ages 16 to 24 is more than twice the unemployment rate
for people of all ages. These young people are facing significantly higher rates of unemployment
than any other age group, as Figure 1 below shows.
https://youth.workforce3one.org/view/4011320744404177760
According to the FBI, 69% of the total homicides recorded across the nation involved a firearm.
These are the top 10 US cities with the most murders in 2012.
500 murders in Chicago in 2012, up from 431 in 2011. New York reported 419 murders in 2012,
down from 515 the year before. In all, 15 cities across American reported more than 100 murders
in 2012. In addition to Chicago and New York, Detroit (386 murders), Philadelphia (331), Los
Angeles (299), Baltimore (219), Houston (217), New Orleans (193), Dallas (154), Memphis
(133), Oakland (126), Phoenix (124), St. Louis (113), Kansas City (105) and Indianapolis (101)
all cracked the century mark in homicides. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/19/fbi-chicago-
officially-america-murder-capital/
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Solution The Culinary Arts Program primary objective is to introduce employment opportunity thereby
reducing violence among youth
The Chef Culinary program would prevent and/or reduce violence by: 1) conduct
strategic scheduled training during after school hours and from 6pm to 10pm daily Monday
through Friday. According to the Juvenile crime statistics, crimes committed by juveniles are
most likely to occur on school days in the hours immediately following the end of a school day.
On non-school days juvenile crimes are most likely to occur between the hours of eight and ten
at night; and, 2) Give our young people the hope and opportunity to get involved in the number
one fastest growing private sector in America. The Culinary Program foundation mission, goals
and objective is to make the culinary experience exciting and tasteful. Many teens will grab hold
of the opportunity to find a new change in life. This youth transition of change has been our past
experience while operating the program.
Successful program outcomes depend on the enrollments of at risk youth from our initial
recruitment areas: the South Shore, Greater Grand Crossing, Woodlawn and Auburn-Gresham,
and Englewood communities in Chicago. Juvenile delinquency in these areas, according to
Chicago Police Department in the 3rd
and 6th
police district is mostly confined to misdemeanor
property crimes and quality of life crimes. Many of these crimes occur after school and during
the hours of 8 pm to 10 pm. We believe our program outcomes will reduce these crime statistics
in both districts, as well as other districts using a hands on training curriculum, balanced
restorative justice activity that focus on youth strengths/needs to transform delinquent behavior
to establish positive relations within their perspective community targeted service areas.
Program outcomes build project collaborations with restaurant industry corporations to use our
culinary program as a pre-employment training opportunity for them to tap into an influx of
youth going into the restaurant industry with experience and credentials as chefs, caterers,
waiters, servers, sanitation workers, restaurant managers and more that the field has to offer.
Earned Income Tax credits will be offered to employers that accept our trained youth.
The Chef Culinary Training will introduce youth participants to great jobs in the following areas:
Restaurants, Hotels and motels, Bed and breakfasts, Resorts and spas, Campgrounds, Cruise
lines, Extended stay and retirement homes, Railroads, Amusement parks/attractions, Country
clubs and Convention and Exposition centers
Incentive approach
According to research, American Youth Policy Forum suggests that regular participation in out-
of-school time programs can benefit youth in many ways. Out-of-school time program
participation can spur higher academic achievement, improve school attendance and student
behavior, and increase effort in and enjoyment of school, and it may deter youth from
delinquency. But such benefits cannot be obtained if youth do not attend programs, or do not
attend them regularly. With so many activities competing for pre-teens’ and teens’ attention (e.g.,
jobs, school sports, and even risky lures, such as gang involvement), it is sometimes difficult to
recruit young people to participate in out-of-school time programs, but incentives offer one sure
way to boost this participation.
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Incentives are the various methods used to motivate and/or reward children and youth to
participate in out-of-school time programs. Incentives may be in the form of activities (such as
special field trips, food, or recreation) or in the form of rewards (such as gift certificates).
Youth Culinary Arts seeks to engage youth in a variety of design and capacity contexts, including
Employee Cooks incentive- ECI were new employees learn a dish and stick to the preparation and
mastering that dish for restaurant supply and customer demand. Once mastered the dish, youth can
move on to other dish challenges. Employees enrolled in ECI will benefit from the capacity of
percentages earned from each dish sold.
Our Youth Management Team -YMT is another incentive that will Develop capacity in participants
that is transferrable from one job to another because to survive this initiative youth will learn and be
able to function with experience in restaurant management: food & safety, sanitation, inventory,
payroll, food prep, scheduling, which youth will need these skills in the restaurant industry for those
want us to exploit them to venders and restaurants as experienced available placement workers for
their companies.
Regarding ECI and YMT, these two initiatives creates a sense of belonging, a sense of autonomy and
power, helps youth develop needed social and decision-making skills, builds their sense of
competence, and also motivates them to persist.
As youth prepare to become adults, their roles change: Instead of always being taken care of, they
increasingly take care of themselves. While not all youth will assume traditional leadership roles as
they grow older (e.g. positions of authority, political titles, etc.), they will all become the leaders of
their own lives, a job that demands leadership ability. To be successful as adults, all youth will be
required to demonstrate self-sufficiency and initiative, which includes making the right decisions that
lead to success.
Furthermore, youth leadership opportunities can give youth the skills that employers most want for
their emergent workforce: self motivation, time management, oral and written communication, team
work, influencing people, salesmanship, leadership, solving problems, physical skills related to
health, and gathering, evaluating, and/or analyzing information.
Regardless of the future aspirations of youth, leadership opportunities can help all youth develop the
skills they will need in the workforce and for a lifetime of making good decisions.
We will exercise the program goal which is to help youth gain the skills they need to secure,
retain and advance in economically self-sustaining jobs and contribute to the economic vitality of
the Chicago region.
Give continuous work-related counsel and mentoring workshops to low-income job seekers who
are prepared for jobs in growth industries and given long-term support to obtain and keep jobs
with good pay and exploit placement for youth because of advancement potential.
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Who We Are
We are a registered 501 (C)3 community organization in Chicago and officially given nonprofit
status in 2007 by the state of Illinois.
Mission Statement
To produce violence reduction strategies and prevent a repeated relapse into criminal or
delinquent behavior in at risk youth through the five aspects of positive youth development:
learning, connecting, thriving, working, and leading
To create and mentor a Youth Leadership Counsel for selected underprivileged communities
To recruit and train available parents as mentors
To mentor teens from adolescent to adulthood
Our purpose is to teach youth through individual empowerment toward self-improvement in
personal, social, academic, vocational and economic skills which would nurture a positive
growth in morality, responsibility, education, work relations, and family structure
Our goals is to effectively modify behavior patterns, increase young adult’s ability to create jobs
and increase young adult’s wiliness to serve their communities collectively; to observe and
document the strengths and positive attributes in our youth through case-management; to direct
those strengths and attributes toward youth leadership in our network of activities
Our objective is to establish an active presents in underprivileged communities for our programs
to function and be self-sufficient.
Our programs
Community Gardening -Horticulture, Culinary Arts program, Dedicated Mentoring, Youth
Leadership council, Vacant Building Rehab program, Paid Amature Sports Series – PASS League
Seed Money is Needed
We are requesting seed money of $247,300 for our pilot programming. Start-up funding is
$100,000
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