UHCHI hosts 4 cohorts per year, one beginning mid January, one beginning end of March/early April, one beginning in the middle of June, and the final one beginning at the end of September.

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Your apprenticeship consists of 8 weeks of classroom/teaching kitchen instruction followed by paid on-the-job training. To complete the paid on-the-job training portion, you must complete 1000 hours and pass your competency assessments, which most apprentices achieve within 6-12 months.

After attending an info session and reviewing their pre-application, applicants will receive an invitation to sit for CASAS testing. CASAS was designed to assess the relevant basic skills of adult learners in real work situations and gauge their Reading and Math levels. Our required benchmarks are 10th-grade Reading and 6th-grade Math. Testing is conducted on-site every Tuesday at 11 a.m.

The following steps of the UHCHI application process are the Chef interview, Kitchen Math, and Knife Skill prerequisite assessments. The interview will occur on the same day as the Kitchen Math assessment, so we ask applicants to dress appropriately and bring a hard copy of their resume. 

As a WIOA-approved training provider, we refer all applicants to partnering Community-Based Organizations that can provide Individual Training Accounts to fund their participation. Thus, the applicant incurs no out-of-pocket expenses.