Latest News & Updates
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 [...]
A Conversation with Returning Citizens – Video now available
Have you ever met a returning citizen? If not, it’s difficult to grasp both the harsh reality of re-entry and the wondrous achievement of full reintegration. To put a human face on life after [...]
Expanding Our Umbrella: Introducing … WorkWell!
When COVID-19 put a halt to CookWell training sessions, it came with a silver lining: the freed-up time allowed us to plan a program that will raise the number of people we train and strengthen [...]
A Woman of Many Talents: Dora Dunn
The CookWell family extends a warm welcome to new advisory board member Dora Dunn. A woman of wide-ranging talents, Dora has accomplished much in her professional life while always making time to serve others. After [...]
Out of Tragedy, Hope: The Zakee Cooper Memorial Fund
We are delighted to announce an anonymous gift of $10,000 to inaugurate the Zakee Cooper Memorial Fund. In June 2019 Zakee graduated from the CookWell program with flying colors, a milestone for someone who had [...]
CookWell’s Response to Early Prison Release in New Jersey
In a sweeping acknowledgment of the risks of coronavirus in cramped prisons, New Jersey began last November the early release of what will amount to more than 3,000 inmates in the coming months. With this [...]
Removing walls, building community
In recent months CookWell has been using the program hiatus imposed by COVID-19 to super-charge our development as a nonprofit. We’ve made real strides, working hard to upgrade our culinary training model, revise our mentorship [...]
CookWell’s Exciting New Program Model – An Update
This new model retains the strengths of our original one, while giving us enhanced flexibility in serving program participants.
CookWell Welcomes New Advisory Board Members
Four new members were recently added to the CookWell Advisory Board. Jason Reaves CookWell is fortunate to welcome Jason Reaves. Currently a sous chef at Bucks County Playhouse, Jason comes to us with a wealth [...]