{"id":261452,"date":"2022-01-30T11:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=261452"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:20:46","slug":"delaware-cafe-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/delaware-cafe-down-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware cafe offers internship to prepare adults with Down syndrome for careers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Down Syndrome Association of Delaware (DSA)<\/a>, a nonprofit group founded and run by parents of individuals with Trisomy 21, celebrated the grand opening of DSA Cafe in December.<\/p>\n

Located in the city of Newark, DSA Cafe offers a one-of-a-kind, three-month-long paid internship so that people with Down syndrome can develop the necessary skills to find a long-term job in the food or customer service industries. The Cafe location also houses a store selling products sourced from all over the country and as far away as England, each made by a person with Down Syndrome.<\/p>\n

The Cafe is the first initiative<\/a> of its kind for the Down Syndrome Association of Delaware, and it has received significant buy-in from the surrounding community. Executive Chef Rob Taylor chose to leave a career in corporate dining in order to head up the program. Taylor himself has a son with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

At the Cafe’s grand opening ceremony, Taylor commented on the practical impact working in the Cafe is going to have on the interns’ lives, saying, “It\u2019s going to help create an awareness of safety in the kitchen as well as the culinary recipes to be able not only to take those skills home with them and prepare meals for their family, but also hopefully cultivate an understanding of what it\u2019s going to take to work in a real kitchen in some capacity.”<\/p>\n

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