Las Vegas restaurant connects troubled youth to workforce training

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by News 3 Staff

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A new educational institution is working to improve the lives of troubled young people in the community.

Councilman Cedric Crear visited Mission High, Las Vegas's only Recovery High School, to launch the new program Blooming Bistro on Thursday.

The newly transformed restaurant will provide disconnected youth with workforce training and social and emotional learning to help improve abstinence from substance use.

Councilman Crear says the program is centered around mentorship.

"Many of the instructors and people who are here have gone through that same route they've gone on," said Councilman Crear.

"We have a lot of peer to peer mentorship that's taking place and that's important because you want to see people that have gone down the same route that you've gone through who can speak your language and your nomenclature to see them doing well."

The program works to train and employ youth and young adults aged 16-26 in recovery.

Participants will also gain help with housing stability, employment, status, social connectedness, health/behavioral/social consequences, and reducing criminal justice involvement.

The Blooming Bistro is provided by the Nevada State Opioid Response Grant under the Division of Public and Behavioral Health.