Purple Chicken, is a socially conscientious, truly inclusive, hub for food and art, with a good heart.
The café program is aimed at NDIS funded participants aged between 15 and 30, providing learning and real time work experience in a commercial café in the community, and will include:
• High quality realistic work experience and training programs for young adults with a disability who are interested in a career in hospitality, or simply hoping to gain the skills to achieve their first part-time job, in-line with their age peers. Learning:
o Food preparation
o Cooking
o Barista
o Serving customers
o Using point of sales equipment and software
o Cleaning and kitchen hand skills
o All ancillary skills required to work in the hospitality sector and a workplace in general
• High quality complimentary global skill development for independent living in the following areas:
o Planning
o Scheduling
o Time management
o Financial budgeting and management
o Shopping for value, and quality, nutrition, food safety and hygiene
o Preparing, cooking, serving and storage, of food, including expiry dates and visual assessment of the safety of food to use or eat
o Personal presentation
o Personal protection behaviours
o Communication development
o Social skills development
o Fitness and well-being
o Cleaning and safe use of chemicals
o Workplace understanding and skill development
• High quality affordable food options for all members of our community, and social inclusion opportunities for all members of our community including people living with social disadvantage.
• To raise the social status of people living with a disability
• Retail outlet for the microbusinesses developed by young adults with disabilities
• Exhibition opportunity for artists with a disability