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Your Best Cooking Support in Young

Your Best Support’s Cooking Skills Group will start next year in January and are looking for expressions of interest going forward. They are focused on supporting participants in developing essential daily living skills in a fun, and supportive environment.

Cooking skills can help you build friendships, teamwork, and confidence, as well as planning, problem-solving and organisation.

The class offers learning about ingredients that help you make healthier food choices, which supports both your mind and body.

 

 

Emily Best, Director of Your Best Support, said, “the cooking skills group sits in line with Your Best Support. We are an NDIS provider and we have a few elements to Your Best Support. We do in home support, community support, support co-ordination, community integration, but we focus a lot on increasing people’s skills and capacities, mainly for independent living. We are a firm believer that skills are key to progressing through goals, progressing through life and being independent.

“We work within the space of building capacity and skills from an NDIS perspective but also bringing the community into that and increasing the community’s understanding and perception of disability and mental health.

 

 

Inside of these groups we are quite an inclusive space. They are pretty basic skill building workshops we’ve been running for the last year and a half. We do craft workshops as well where we do the same.

“The classes are quite new to Your Best Support the cooking group. Essentially we work in collaboration with the CWA, we use that space and have done now for quite some time.”

Emily said they are really basic skill building groups which is understanding how to read the nutritional guidelines on packets, understanding weights and measurements, a little bit of capacity building with budgeting, kitchen safety and general skills.

 

 

“The classes will run two-and-a-half to three hours. We will go through what we are cooking, the nutritional value, the servings, the meal proportions and what they can be accompanied with as well.

“During the time that people are attending we will make the recipe and at the end of it we will sit down together and enjoy what the class has made and get some feedback and have a bit of a review of the group. It’s an inclusive group. Everybody is more than welcome to come along. It’s not just about disability, it’s really about community when we do these groups.

“Community is so important for people that are vulnerable, especially inside of the smaller towns as community is quite close knit. If we can start opening up the community to people with mental health and disabilities it would be wonderful and if we are going to bring together with food, why not?”

-Jack Murray

 

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