Our Connecting with Community program links job-training participants with appropriate resources for housing, food stamps, drug rehabilitation, long-term counseling, and free to low-cost physical and mental health services.

As a trainee nears completion of our employment program, Connecting with Community engages the individual in one-on-one job searching techniques, application review and coaching, and interview role-playing.

San Jose State University Social Work Interns

Our Social Work Interns work with our Connecting with Community program. Katie & Kristen work one-on-one with trainees to promote trainees' full participation in our job training and transitional employment programs by addressing needs such as health care, legal issues, transportation and shelter. With Katie and Kristen, trainees identify goals that will create and sustain their own well-being.They will monitor trainee progress toward goals and support meaningful engagement in accomplishing goals.In addition, our social work interns foster trainee progress toward unsubsidized employment as a key long-term goal related to a career plan.

Katie & Kristen are Master's level students in the School of Social Work at San Jose State University.They work with HGP two days per week during school year 2011-2012.They are supervised by Francis Krebs, LCSW.

Partnering with Bauman College's WellFed Program

Bauman College, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational institution has been training Nutrition Consultants and Natural Chefs since 1989. Their mission is to improve personal and community well-being by teaching people to eat well to sustain health and support recovery from illness and injury. A significant part of their work is to support students and graduates in offering programs and services to teach whole food nutrition to groups and organizations interested in creating a culture of improved health and sustainable living.

We are excited to offer their WellFed™ program to trainees at HGP. For six consecutive weeks, trainees will receive one-hour health and wellness classes. Trainees will receive a beautifully illustrated workbook containing valuable information that reinforces the nutrition and lifestyle recommendations presented in each class.

Kitchen & Resource Center:

Our kitchen is also one site of our community resources program. We bring vital resources within reach to individuals-in-need. Local non-profit organizations are invited to visit our kitchen on a regular basis, providing essential information and necessities to individuals living on the streets or at risk of losing their homes. Often the Kitchen Resource Center is a person's introduction to our job-training program.