Samuel T: Profile of a WorkWell Graduate
What is the typical ex-offender? People often envision a person who commits youthful indiscretions and emerges from prison young enough to have a go at a new life. But that is not always the [...]
Restaurants Reach Out to Neighbors in Need
During WorkWell’s pilot phase, participants enjoyed free lunches provided by several community-oriented restaurants: Aunt Chubby’s, the Big Easy, and 1911 Smoke House BBQ. A little background on these good neighbors: Aunt Chubby’s Luncheonette in Hopewell [...]
WorkWell Program is Launched
After a year in the planning, WorkWell is up and running. Building on valuable experience under our former program, CookWell, we retooled our job-training curriculum to include industries beyond food service. This new approach [...]
Steps to Success
We measure success one life at a time. And ultimately, our hope is to enable as many people as we can to find steady jobs, and a steady life. But there are many steps to [...]
CookWell FAQs
How did the idea for this project originate? A: CookWell, and the Lawrenceville Job-Training Partnership (LJTP), came to be as a result of the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville’s strategic planning process in 2014-17. Q: [...]
What is the Lawrenceville Job-Training Partnership?
The Lawrenceville Job-Training Partnership (LJTP) is a collaboration, begun in 2018 by the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, to provide job training for returning citizens. LJTP's initial job-training program was called CookWell. CookWell was a [...]