CCAP on the road to success...for many more students

Okay - September's about done! It's almost past time, but we're ready now: Back to school! CCAP Arizona, you, too!

CCAP Arizona director Jill Smith and her team (including Nicole Swartz, Dr. Carrole Wolin and Leslie Gennaro) met with more than two dozen culinary teachers and instructors from high school culinary programs throughout the state recently.

On the agenda: CCAP Arizona's calendar for the coming year, how teachers can help students prepare, and how to work with students to help them decide whether competition or training is the best path forward.

This means, Jill notes, that while CCAP will continue its well-established, highly recognized competitive scholarship program with attendant focus on select hard skills, those who need and/or want to enter the workforce ASAP will find skills and work training designed to give them a distinct edge both in applying and in becoming successful in a tough, demanding profession.

Competition training will focus primarily on those skills needed specifically for competition, providing a thorough grounding in an array of essential and basic kitchen skills.

Job training will include an emphasis on essential hard skills, in combination with a host of additional skills and "best practice" techniques designed to give students a practical edge in almost any entry-level hospitality position.

Two separate job shadowing experiences with professional chefs will help to insure the job training has, in fact, helped to prepare students for real work at a real work place.

"We are increasingly focused on helping culinary students reach career goals through a path that is right for them," says Jill. 

CCAP will maintain its extensive scholarship awards and assistance, while affording students whose primary need/desire is to begin working in hospitality as soon as possible a distinct advantage in securing an entry level position that sets forth a true path for success.

Coming soon:

CCAP's 2017-18 calendar of classes and events. Also, don't miss what some teachers have to say about their students and CCAP!