KC SERVED (Sustainable Employment in Restaurants, Value-driven Employer/Employee Direction)

As an active member of Kansas City’s culinary landscape, Episcopal Community Services is committed to transforming the restaurant industry to provide meaningful, sustainable employment
that allows for individuals to move towards self-sufficiency. KC SERVED (Sustainable Employment in Restaurants, Value-driven Employer/Employee Direction) is the first step in this work. Through
active engagement with the Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association, along with a growing network of other partners across the culinary, workforce development and social service sectors, we
are leading community-wide efforts to stabilize the food service industry and the lives of those who work in the sector.
Inputs Activities Outputs Initial Outcomes Intermediate Outcomes Long-Term Outcomes
Culinary Cornerstones Recruitment: Culinary Cornerstones Increase access to Increase access to better Increase ability of culinary
Training Program (CCTP): • Guests/ Former Training Program: meaningful training and trained and managed industry to allow for
• Curriculum Participants • Locations: 2 employment in culinary workforce. maintained employment
• Catalyst Kitchens • Partnerships • Cohorts: 10 industry. • Increase Workforce into a career path.
Network • Media/ Social Media • Enrollment: 100 • Increase Recruitment Stability/ Decrease • Living Wages/ Benefits
• Participants o Graduates: 70% • Increase Training Turnover • Advancement
CCTP Training: o Employed: 60% Opportunities • Decrease Recruitment/ Opportunities
Partners • Immersive Experiences  6 Months: 75% • Increase Relevance Training Costs
• Referral • Culinary Knowledge/ through Culinary Increase culinary
• Internship Sites Skills Community Care: Advisory Committee Decrease cost and impact industry’s positive impact
• Culinary Advisory/ • Life Skills • Aftercare Meetings: 50 • Increase Focus on of providing food. on the greater
Greater Kansas City • Outsourced: • Resource Hotline: Community Care/ Life • Decrease Food Waste community.
Restaurant Association o Financial Literacy Pending Skills • Increase Composting/ • Health/ Nutrition
o Digital Literacy • Industry Workshops: 10 Recycling • Give-Back
Experienced Staff: o Job Readiness Increase support for
• President/CEO Community Mobilization: trained workforce. Increase access to healthy Increase reach through
• Culinary Community Care: • Culinary Advisory • Increase Access to food. sharing best practices with
• Community Care/ Social • Individual Council: Aftercare Support • Increase Fresh Product other industries/
Work • Group o Meetings: 4 • Provide Resource • Increase Local Sourcing workforce development
• Community • Resources/ Referrals o Attendance: 50 Hotline programs.
Engagement • Give-Back: • Increase Training for
Culinary Advisory o Partners: 10 mangers within culinary
Space: Committee o Volunteer Hours: 300 industry
• Kansas City Community o In-Kind: Pending o Trauma Informed
Kitchen Industry Training: Care
• Classroom/ Counseling • Trauma-Informed Care Advocacy: o Motivational
• Motivational • Carrot Gold: Questioning
Kitchen Equipment/ Questioning o Tours: 12
Supplies o Commitment: 5 Increase opportunities for
Advocacy: • Transportation: culinary industry
Strong Leadership: • Carrot Gold o Meetings: 4 community engagement.
• President/CEO • Transportation o Attendance: 60 • Volunteer
• ECS Board • Overcoming the • Overcoming the • Sponsorship
• ECS Staff Benefits Cliff Benefits Cliff: • Advocacy
• Living Wages o Meetings: 6
Volunteers o Attendance: 150

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KC SERVED (Sustainable Employment in Restaurants, Value-driven Employer/Employee Direction)
Outcome Indicator
Recruit 100 participants from partner
agencies.
Offer 10 enrollment dates at 2 training
locations.
Graduate 70 participants from 30-week,
800-hour program, including ServSafe
certification, internship and
apprenticeship.
Employee 60% enrolled participants
eligible for employment, 75% maintain
employment for 6 months.
Culinary Advisory Committee meets 4
times to discuss trends within the
Increase access to meaningful training
culinary industry, guiding program focus.
and employment in culinary industry.
50% of instructional time is focused on
Community Care, including life skills
classes, group processing and individual
counseling.
Improved score on the WHO Disability
Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) at 30
weeks in any of the following domains of
functioning: Self-Care: hygiene, dressing,
eating, staying alone; Getting Along:
interacting with other people; Life
Activities: domestic responsibilities,
leisure, work & school; and Participation:
joining in community activities.
Data Source Data Collection Method
Participant Applications Director of Culinary Cornerstones, along
with Community Care Liaisons, maintain
participant files.
Master Schedule Director of Culinary Cornerstones
maintains master schedule.
Participant Records Director of Culinary Cornerstones, along
with Community Care Liaisons, maintain
participant records.
Participant Records Director of Culinary Cornerstones, along
with Community Care Liaisons, maintain
participant records.
Advisory Committee Records; Master Director of Culinary Cornerstones, along
Schedule with Director of Community
Engagement, maintain advisory
committee records.
Individual Participant Community Care Director of Community Care, along with
Plans; Master Schedule Community Care Liaisons, maintain
individual participant records; Director of
Culinary Cornerstones maintains master
schedule.
WHODAS assessments WHODAS assessments are administered
by the Director of Community Care and
Community Care Liaisons at intake,
midpoint (15 weeks), and program
completion (30 weeks)). The Director of
Community Care is responsible for data
collection and analysis.
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KC SERVED (Sustainable Employment in Restaurants, Value-driven Employer/Employee Direction)
Increase support for trained workforce.
Increase opportunities for culinary
industry community engagement.
Provide 50 aftercare group opportunities.
Provide Resource Hotline for restaurant
partners.
Offer 10 training opportunities for
mangers within culinary industry on
issues such as Trauma Informed Care and
Motivational Questioning.
10 culinary industry partners will provide
300 hours of volunteer service.
(PENDING) culinary industry partners will
provide in-kind or monetary support for
the organization.
Give 12 tours of the Kansas City
Community Kitchen with a focus on
involvement in Carrot Gold program, 5
committing to joining.
Co-host 4 meetings of the Employment
Transportation Roundtable, with 60
attendees.
Co-host 6 meetings of the Self-
Sustainability Through Employment
Programs (STEP) coalition, with 150
attendees.
Master Schedule
Hotline Log; Marketing Materials
Training Logs; Master Schedule
Volunteer Applications and Logs
Donation (In-Kind, Monetary) Logs
Tour Log
Attendance Logs; Master Calendar
Attendance Logs; Master Calendar
Director of Culinary Cornerstones
maintains master schedule.
Director of Community Care, along with
Community Care Liaisons, maintain
hotline log; Marketing materials
developed by Director of Community
Engagement.
Director of Community Care maintains
training logs; Director of Culinary
Cornerstones maintains master schedule.
Director of Community Engagement,
along with Volunteer AmeriCorps, track
volunteer applications and time in
Salesforce.
Office Coordinator maintains all records
of donations, both in-kind and monetary,
in Salesforce.
Director of Community Engagement
maintains tour log, including outcome
metrics.
Director of Community Engagement
maintains attendance logs and master
calendar.
Director of Community Engagement
maintains attendance logs and master
calendar.
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