[Nfbk] FW: Kentucky Office for the Blind to Provide Employment Opportunities at State Cafeterias

Tue Apr 24 21:18:30 UTC 2018

FYI,

Todd

From: Wright, Jennifer (OFB-FK) [mailto:JenniferN.Wright at ky.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 2:35 PM
Subject: FW: Kentucky Office for the Blind to Provide Employment
Opportunities at State Cafeterias

Below is the press release about the running of two state cafeterias in
Frankfort being taken over by two of our KBE vendors.

From: Kentucky Education & Workforce Development Cabinet
[mailto:kyewdc at subscriptions.kentucky.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 2:23 PM
To: Wright, Jennifer (OFB-FK) <JenniferN.Wright at ky.gov>
Subject: Kentucky Office for the Blind to Provide Employment Opportunities
at State Cafeterias

Initiative provides opportunities for upward mobility for blind vendors 

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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Education & Workforce Development Cabinet 

Matthew G. Bevin, Governor

Don Parkinson, Interim Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Cora McNabb 
502-564-4754
Cora.mcnabb at ky.gov

Kentucky Office for the Blind to Provide Employment Opportunities at State
Cafeterias

FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 24, 2018) - In support of Governor Bevin's Kentucky
Work Matters Task Force, blind and visually impaired Kentuckians will soon
have increased career opportunities in the food service industry.  

The Kentucky Office for the Blind will assume management later this spring
of two cafeterias which primarily serve state employees. The cafeterias are
located at the Transportation Cabinet and the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services.

“This provides opportunities of upward mobility for blind vendors and helps
them to serve more consumers,” said Corey Marcum, Director of Kentucky
Business Enterprises (KBE). “Participating vendors work as entrepreneurs who
hire additional staff for meaningful employment.”

KBE is a division of the Kentucky Office for the Blind, which is an agency
of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet (EWDC). The
mission of the Kentucky Office for the Blind is to provide opportunities for
employment and independence to individuals with visual disabilities.

EWDC Interim Secretary Don Parkinson says this move will provide important
work experience for Kentuckians with disabilities.

“KBE currently provides excellent food service at Café 300 in the Sower
Building,” said Parkinson, “These services will continue to improve as they
expand to the cafeterias at the Transportation Cabinet and the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services buildings and will provide great work
opportunities for Kentuckians in need of employment.”

KBE has identified experienced food service vendors with a track record of
positive customer satisfaction and high employee retention to operate the
cafeterias.

*	The first cafeteria to transition is located at the Transportation
Cabinet. Food service will not be available between April 27, 2018 and June
1, 2018 as KBE assumes operations from the Kentucky Department of Parks. 

*	Food services will be interrupted at the cafeteria at the Cabinet
for Health and Family Services beginning May 31, 2018. KBE is currently
working on a timeline for resuming operations. 

Governor Bevin’s Kentucky Work Matters Task Force was formed in November
2017 with the goal of addressing barriers to employment and promoting
workforce inclusion among people with disabilities, foster children,
disabled veterans, and individuals burdened by substance abuse or criminal
records.

“The unemployment rate in Kentucky is at 4%.  That is its lowest level in
nearly half a century,” said Adam Meier, Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor
Bevin, who led the Kentucky Work Matters Task Force. “For our state to
satisfy the employments needs of our growing economy, we must expand career
opportunities for all Kentuckians, especially those who have a disability or
other impediment to employment.”

The Kentucky Business Enterprise Program is an association of 40 active
vendors who are blind or visually impaired and operate businesses in the
Commonwealth. The program is rooted in the 1936 Randolph Sheppard Act, which
makes provisions for the blind or visually impaired to run vending or other
food service operations on federal and state property across the country. 

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