Food 360 Program Goals

Project Mission & Goals

Food 360 is a project of FamilyCook Productions in partnership with Dekalb Market and the NYC Workforce Development Corporation. The mission of Food 360 is to provide farm-to-table job training for NYC youth who have yet to find a job or a career path.

The Goals for the training program are to:

• Experience hands-on training in 360 degrees of food systems: from growing, to harvesting, to composting, to cooking, to processing food products, to selling these products at as a company representative or in a retail market.
• Learn about the many career paths: that an interest in the world of food can lead to and meet successful and start up operators on these paths to learn about different business models.
• Identify an area of career interest: from the above to focus on in an internship and apprenticeship.
• Practice what you are learning by teaching: workshops for the general public, including cooking and nutrition education for diverse groups of people.
• Transform your own personal relationship to food: by learning to support your well being through cooking healthful and delicious food using fresh ingredients.
• Become inspired by entrepreneurship: as well as corporate job opportunities to identify the beginning of a desired career path and goals that can even include going back to school.
• Secure a permanent job placement: that is an excellent ‘fit’ and marks the beginning of a career path with a plan for the future.