benefits

Assess the personal situation and what you would like to achieve. Supporting everyday activities and life skills such as cooking, cleaning etc.

A program that is hands on, which seeks participants to discover the joy of creating and cooking fun recipes which can be used at home to manage personal nutritional needs.

Depending on skill level, participants are actively involved in all processes, for example: having the motor skills of peeling a carrot to begin with, all the way up to cooking a meal independently.

Goal planning with participant and family are discussed during consultation times. We endeavour to ensure that participants and family’s goals are met and expanded upon.

We enhance interpersonal relationships by creating scenarios  that involve tentative listening, working as a team, time and money management, numeracy skills, and literacy skills with reading and comprehending recipes. Participants will look at various types of writing, including recipe Books, newspapers, magazines, television and Internet. 

Numeracy skills in the Cooking 4 Life Skills program provide the participant with the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge to use functional numeracy in everyday life. For example: using simple measurement for temperature, weight and numbers.