Building community among Teaching Kitchen (TK) participants is essential to identify best practices and keep participants engaged and coming back. Whether you are working with patients who need encouragement from their peers, or teens who are accustomed to sharing achievements and experiences on social media – it’s the sharing and receipt of feedback that has…
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Mercedes Sanchez, Mirella Rodriguez, Lynn Fredericks, and Mari Strand Cary By Lynn Fredericks, Founder and CEO, FamilyCook Productions SxSW was an exciting new opportunity to engage with educators across the US and identify: 1) what was on their minds and 2) the type of programming they are seeking. Although FamilyCook’s primary mission is food-related…
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By Anastasia Cabral, RD Periodically, our partners across the US share important participant and patient feedback. This is incredibly helpful to: Highlight the most impactful curriculum elements; Identify which evidence-based Experiential Drivers of Behavior Change are especially motivational for a particular population; Support curriculum improvements. Recently, new partners in Nevada completed the first cohort of…
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As schools across the country prepare their budgets for the upcoming academic year, a critical financial milestone looms on the horizon. The expiration date for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) III funds are fast approaching. These funds, initially provided to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, have been crucial in maintaining…
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The emerging field of Teaching Kitchens has been growing rapidly, especially among health professionals (nutritionists, health coaches, nurses, physicians etc.). As pioneers in the field, we know that developing the workforces for this new field is critical. FamilyCook foresees a range of roles, including peer educators and Teaching Kitchen Assistants, whose backgrounds mirror the diverse communities…
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As parents and educators, we all want to encourage our children to develop healthy habits that span across their physical, emotional and social well-being. It’s no secret that digital channels play a large role in how young minds think and grow; but did you know it can also be an incredible tool for implementing positive…
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Having the funding and ability to follow participants in Teaching Kitchen (TK) interventions over time is extremely difficult and rare. Most programs are working off of philanthropic grants with shorter time frames and such funding sources are infrequently renewed. Hence just keeping a TK effort going is tough enough, let alone obtaining IRB approval and…
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As we explore the tenth and final of our “10 Experiential Drivers of Behavior Change” you may ask: how can your Teaching Kitchen be set up for participants’ success? What does success mean at different age and stages of development? Sometimes we need to cross disciplines to fully understand the power of success to achieve…
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In NYC, Teen Battle Chefs create new school breakfast recipes, like these breakfast tacos. Integrated breakfast programs like these increase school breakfast participation, on-time attendance, and ensure children are fed and ready to learn. As Teaching Kitchen practitioners look to scale up and significantly broaden impact, we look to tap into existing systems –…
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Skill reinforcement is a driver of behavior change for healthy eating patterns. I’m always a bit surprised at how much faith teaching kitchen program designers place on cooking demos. No question: Demos can be very inspiring. They provide concrete ideas. They teach radically different (and much healthier) meal concepts than what their audience (usually…
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