Healthy Living Outreach Programs
The Healthy Living Outreach Programs specifically targets lower-income and other needy communities in Washington, DC, assisting them with their own efforts to promote healthy eating. Our specific role is to integrate cooking programs into existing community health programs. Where such programs are non-existent, we help develop the community’s healthy eating and nutrition programs to emphasize cooking skills, how to shop for healthy foods, and dispel the myth that eating healthy is unaffordable.
By empowering individuals with the cooking skills necessary to eat healthy, by teaching them that even on a limited budget, or “differently-abled”, one can eat healthy, we believe that our clients will more easily embrace change in their eating habits and gain knowledge of basic nutrition. These are skills that we believe our clients will then share with family and friends at home and elsewhere.
Healthy Living Outreach Programs also include guest appearances within the community. We partner with organizations to provide hourly, half- or full-day cooking workshops that enrich their own programs.