This Maryland-based bakery has trained 550 young adults with learning differences to become bakers and to get jobs in the hospitality industry and beyond. Learn more about their story
“We can't change the world, but we can help people change themselves and grow and transform,” says one of the non-profit's foundersJordan Scott-Geason loves baking chocolate chip cookies and key lime cheesecake. The 21-year-old learned her baking skills in a six-month intensive training program at Sunflower Bakery in Rockville, Md.Sunflower Bakery
The Pastry Arts program teaches both the life skills needed to work in a commercial kitchen as well as how to follow a recipe and bake. The hospitality training program teaches on-the-job customer service skills, including filling online orders and serving customers at the bakery’s café. “We can't change the world, but we can help people change themselves and grow and transform,” says one of the founders, Sara Portman Milner, 75. “We give them a chance to be the best they can be.”
When Wexler approached Milner with the idea of opening a bakery and hiring employees with learning differences, Milner liked the idea — but she wanted to do more than just give jobs to a handful of people. She wanted their bakery to train people to get jobs elsewhere.“I said the only way I would do it is if you train people to work in other people's bakeries or catering firms or restaurants or whatever," Milner explains. "You hire six people, that doesn't help a lot.
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