Sherbourne Health Cafe Renovation

Sherbourne Health Cafe Renovation Project Description :Sherbourne is renovating our lobby café to create a social hub featuring healthy food options and employment opportunities for our community in an accessible space in the following ways: - New design will allow for better flow and functionality. - Increased café hours reflecting new focus and catering and social/community opportunities. - New programming will create nutritious meals for our evening groups (we provide meals for clients before group sessions and currently the go-to for most groups are unhealthy options). - Increasing skills opportunities and nutritional learnings for community. - Creating employment opportunities that will assist at-risk clients from at least seven of our current programs. - Giving new life to a space that will be a community social hub. - Integration with Sherbourne’s other Food for Good programs like our successful social enterprise catering collective (run by newcomer women), community kitchen,

and market greens initiative (supported by Community Food Centres Canada). Sherbourne is renovating our lobby café to create a social hub featuring healthy food options and employment opportunities for our community in an accessible space in the following ways: - The building and installation of lower counters, cabinetry, and accessible self-serve areas (i.e., drink coolers, snack shelves, etc.) will create a space that is accessible to all our community members and clients like those in our Acute Respite Care -Add a qualified Chef/Food Service Pro to our staff who will not only aid in creating a better, more nutritious food program, but who will assist program staff to help clients gain real world cooking skills that they can use to maintain their health and that can even translate into a career in food service. -Expand our group programming to create more opportunities for our clients to get together and reduce social isolation. -Create an overall food program that may someday operate as a social enterprise