Mind Your Food
Join this 12-week hands-on learning program to explore where food comes from and how it connects to the earth and our well-being. Guided by a professional chef, participants will learn to prepare healthy meals and snacks while gaining a deeper understanding of the links between food, mental and physical health, and sustainability. Using food as a primary tool, Mind Your Food aims to promote protective factors through activities that:
- Enable participants to improve their food skills to encourage informed and balanced eating habits
- Share and celebrate food traditions to develop and support cultural pride and awareness
- Create opportunities for meaningful community engagement to foster the development of prosocial behaviours, which means the actions we take to help others
- Connect participants to peers, community role models, and other community resources to build their social and support networks
- Improve participants’ overall teamwork, problem-solving, emotional management, and leadership skills
Upon completion of the program, students receive a certificate of achievement and may even have the opportunity to return as paid peer advisors for future Mind Your Food sessions.
For ages 13 to 19.
Location: Community Food Centre, 103, 61 Tyndall Avenue
Register through email: Chef Melanie
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