Signature Grant: New Kitchen for the New Crocus
Co-op
The kitchen is the heart of any home. This is equally true of the kitchen at Crocus Co-op. Since 1983, Crocus Co-op has provided a safe haven for those living with mental health issues in our community. Like one’s home, Crocus provides a place where clients are not only welcome but accepted, and where nurturing and coaching can lead to healthy lifestyle choices, improved quality of life and hope for the future.
The kitchen at Crocus offers clients access to healthy meals at nominal cost, but much more than that, the kitchen offers vocational training that can pave the way for improved self-esteem, better mental health and job skills that can help clients better their situation in life.
2010 is a year of major changes for Crocus. With the purchase of a building for its new facility, Crocus established a permanent home for its members and its programs. For the first time in its history the organization has a sense of security that we would all like to associate with the word “home.” After providing funding in 2009 for the crocus Kitchen Program, the Saskatoon Community Foundation was proud to help crocus create a new fully functioning kitchen in its new home, a new heart that will be a source of welcome, acceptance, nurturing and learning for years to come.
