Serving for Success

Fact Sheet
Serving for Success 

Program Overview
In 2010, the Houston Food Bank will move to a facility with four times more space: SYSCO’s current food distribution facility.

Serving for Success is a collaboration that will train inmates and probationers for living wage jobs while they work 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 can become productive citizens who don’t return to prison.

The Food Bank’s new home in SYSCO’s current distribution facility has plenty of room for classrooms and educational space. Classes in culinary arts also will be taught at the Keegan Center on the North Freeway. Other partners in Serving for Success will provide services including medical care, 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
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Career and Recovery Resources
  Communities in Schools
  Houston Area Urban League
  Workforce Solutions

Community Benefits

• More food for hungry people
• More productive citizens who don’t return to prison

Training in Living Wage Jobs

• Culinary Arts
• Warehousing
• Industrial refrigeration
• Truck driving
• Truck repair/maintenance
• Welding

To keep up with an increase in poverty and fill the pantries of more hungry people, by 2018 the Houston Food Bank must distribute three times more food.