Be a Volunteer Culinary Educator! GFA-RSVP Volunteers Teach Healthy Cooking to OSDN Veterans

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Green Fork Academy and RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) have partnered together to work with Operation Stand Down, the only veteran service center in Tennessee, to serve as RSVP volunteers and provide a cooking program in the OSDN transitional housing units. Operation Stand Down operates four (4) transitional housing units. Each home provides housing up to 10 veterans in the "Return to Life" program. The "Return to Life" is a six week transitional housing program providing accommodations in a structured, secure, and supportive environment for homeless veterans and offering life skills, job training, and health and wellness classes to veterans in an effort to enhance learning, employment, and life opportunities. RSVP needs volunteers with an interest in cooking, who enjoy cooking, working with veterans, and who want to share their joy and passion for food and cooking as Volunteer Culinary Educators. Beginning in February 2015, GFA and RSVP volunteers will visit an OSDN house, twice a month from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and provide a hands-on cooking program that will teach basic cooking skills, label reading & meal planning, all on a limited budget to the veterans. All supplies, recipes & food are provided by Green Fork Academy. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Liane Proctor, RSVP Volunteer Coordinator at 615-743-3426 or e-mail at lproctor@fiftyforward.org. Space is limited.