What is The Shine Collective?
The SHINE Collective is a program developed by LVS staff that focuses on building participants’ skills while supporting community members in financial, social, and emotional need. The first phase of this project centers on planning, cooking, and distributing home-cooked lasagna meals to community members.
How will participants benefit?
- Learn how to locate and pay for menu items in a grocery store
- Learn how to follow a recipe and ask for help when needed
- Learn to use kitchen utensils, appliances, and new cooking techniques • Practice introducing themselves and sharing about Lighthouse to others
- Enhance their ability to work as part of a team to accomplish a task
- Learn how to appropriately maintain conversations with others
- Being part of supporting community members in need
How will the community benefit?
- Help work toward decreasing food insecurity
- Help improve the social, mental, and emotional well-being of community members through in-person encounters
- Community members receiving a home-cooked meal results in extra time in their day or money in their pocket
- Opportunity to socialize with Lighthouse participants and staff, if interested
- Chance to learn more about LVS
- Invitation to recommend other community members who would benefit from a meal
- Potential to help our program partner with other local non-profit organizations
How can I get involved?
For all inquiries, including information about The SHINE Collective, how to support the program, how to receive a meal, or how to recommend others who would benefit from a meal, please contact: [email protected] – ATTN: SHINE Collective – or call (717) 354-0355.