Serving for Success
Fact Sheet
Serving for Success
Program Overview
In 2011, the Houston Food Bank will move to a much larger facility.
Now in the pilot phase, Serving for Success is a collaboration that will train prisoners and probationers for living wage jobs while they volunteer at the Houston Food Bank. With help from Serving for Success participants, the Food Bank can keep costs down as we grow and feed more hungry people. At the same time former offenders become productive citizens who don’t return to prison.
The Food Bank’s new home on Portwall Street will have plenty of room for classrooms and educational space. Classes in culinary arts will also be taught at the Keegan Center on the North Freeway. Other partners in Serving for Success will provide interaction with social workers, drug and alcohol abuse counseling, job readiness and job placement assistance.
Serving for Success Partners
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Labor, supervision
Harris County Probation
Labor, supervision, case management
Houston Community College System
Training, education
Other Partners
Bible Way Fellowship Church
Communities in Schools - Houston
Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston
Houston Area Urban League
HFB Social Services Outreach
North Channel Assistance Ministries
Workforce Solutions
Community Benefits
- More food for hungry people
- Contained operating costs
- More self-sufficient citizens
- Reduced recidivism
- Cost avoidance for taxpayers
Training in Living Wage Jobs
Industrial refrigeration
Auto body repair
Building maintenance
Consumer electronics
Culinary arts
Warehouse certification
Welding
Carpentry
H/VAC
Workplace literacy
Computer literacy
- GED