We've all faced setbacks in life. Who was there for you in your time of need?
Your kindness can help our students find strength on their journey to overcome the challenges that life has thrown at them. When you contribute to Work Options, you invest in determined, hardworking people in your community.
Work Options provides hands-on culinary job training, AND the supportive services students need to find resources like housing, childcare, and counseling. Your generosity makes it possible for them to build the confidence needed to find and keep a job.
Just knowing that kind people like you believe in them can be all the encouragement our students need as they work to stabilize their lives.
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Together we are rebuilding lives, and strengthening our community - THANK YOU!
The mission of Work Options (formerly known as Work Options for Women or WOW) is to help people overcome barriers to sustainable employment by building confidence while providing resources and culinary job training.
Your donation will provide hands-on culinary skills training taught by professional chef instructors, job readiness instruction and cognitive behavioral therapy sessions that aim to help individuals identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts and to learn practical self-help strategies. Since 1997, Work Options has helped thousands of Coloradans rebuild their lives.
Work Options intentionally recruits and trains some of the Denver metro area's hardest-to-employ, under-resourced individuals - folks who face multiple and substantial obstacles to employment. Your support helps students overcome their individual employment barriers and to stabilize their lives, thus increasing the likelihood that program graduates will be positioned to retain permanent employment over the longer-term. All training and wrap-around services are provided to each student at no cost to them.
Our primary training center has recently moved to the Mosaic Community Campus in Denver's historic Park Hill neighborhood. The campus is the former home of Johnson & Wales University - which means our students get to train in the world-class teaching kitchens that used to house the JWU College of Culinary Arts.
In 2018, Work Options revolutionized our training program by building a Mobile Culinary Classroom. This 28-foot trailer is a fully outfitted mobile kitchen with enough space to train 6 students at a time. The Mobile Culinary Classroom was built to serve people exiting incarceration and re-entering the community. We have successfully partnered with many other community agencies and halfway houses throughout Metro Denver to bring our training to folks who need desperately need support as they begin to rebuild their lives. In 2020, Work Options added another Mobile unit to its fleet - The Helping Hen food truck. The Helping Hen provides paid internship opportunities to students.
Work Options remains one of the only comprehensive job-training program in the Denver area with a consistent track record of more than 27 years helping people attain marketable skills, take control of family and life challenges, and secure permanent employment - and now, with the recent addition of our award-winning culinary Pre-Apprenticeship program, we have a greater capacity than ever to do so.
With your help, Work Options will continue to provide critical job skills training, holistic wrap-around services, and produce and deliver free emergency meals to those in need. Thank you for your support and your dedication to community care.
Organization name
Work Options
other names
WOW, Work Options for Women
1997
Tax id (EIN)
84-1364292
Category
Employment
Organization Size
Large Organization
Colorado State Tax Credits
Colorado Enterprise Zone Credit
Address
1200 Federal BlvdOther
11860 N Pecos StDenver County, CO, US