'You can't get a job if you don't have housing, but you can't keep housing if you don't have a job, and you can't get housed or a job if you don't have mental health.'
It's no secret that homelessness has been a problem in Denver, which is why Brad Volin started, a restaurant-focused nonprofit meant to not only help people get a home, but to provide them with skills to work and keep a job.
After working with a handful of community-service organizations, Volin noticed a gap. While one organization helped with finding employment, another focused on mental health, and another on housing. What really needed to happen, he thought, was to put it all together. "It's hard for these organizations to work efficiently when they are all independent," he says.
"In a culinary field, it's physically and mentally challenging, and you need to learn the culinary skills," he says, adding that the program consists of an intake, interview and trial process before anyone becomes committed."Not everyone is ready for that, so we focus on the people that we think will have success.
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