The Center for Employment Training is a program for individuals who are either previously employed or are under-employed and are seeking an education to improve their circumstances. More than half of the participants are over the age of thirty and one third of them are over forty. They spend a large amount of their time either working or in class, so personal nutrition and health often take a back seat. But twenty students chose to give up their lunch period once a week for five weeks to learn how to improve their health. 

According to data from a national reporting system, as a result of the program 80% of participants reported increasing their physical activity and 90% improved their food resource management thereby helping them to stretch their budget while buying more nutritionally dense foods. When asked how they were able to make these changes participants said they were cooking at home more and buying less soda so that they could buy healthy foods to give them more energy to achieve their goals.