Jupiter’s Chocolate Spectrum Cafe and Academy offers training to adults, teens with autism.
The Chocolate Spectrum Café and Academy is a groundbreaking enterprise, offering adults and teens with Autism and other developmental disabilities the chance to learn a unique skill and be involved in a lifelong, purposeful experience.
The company, founded by Valerie Herskowitz in 2013, trains program participants to make gourmet chocolates and pastries, as well as learning how to be café baristas. In some cases, graduates of the Adult Training Program are employed by The Chocolate Spectrum, a retail, wholesale and online store based in Jupiter, Florida.