A couple of places are now available for our community cafe learning visit to Fly Cup Catering in Inverurie on Wednesday 19 October. The visit’s open to anyone working in or with a community cafe, or in a group that’s supporting people with learning disabilities and interested in setting up a food and health activity. …
Learning disability
Community cafe learning visit to Fly Cup Catering – places available
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Learning disability
Improving food and health for adults with learning disabilities – learning from policy, research, and practice in the community
Meeting notes Twenty-five people from across Scotland (specialist dietitians, learning disability service providers, community and voluntary sector staff) attended this meeting to hear about and discuss food and health activities. The audience heard from: Dr Craig Melville from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing who discussed obesity and the Institute’s weight management programme for people …
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Area of Work: Learning disability
Improving food and health for adults with learning disabilities – learning from policy and practice in the community
The meeting will build on the roundtable discussion we had last December (notes from the meeting are available here) and will provide an opportunity to learn from research, policy and practical work and to discuss issues on implementing good practice with speakers and your colleagues. This is a small meeting (up to 30 people) Speakers …
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Area of Work: Learning disability
Food and health in learning disability services roundtable meeting
CFHS held a small roundtable discussion late last year. The meeting: ‘Embedding food and health activities and policies across learning disability services – what are the barriers and successes?’ was attended by members of 12 organisations involved with supporting people with learning disabilities around food and health. The group carried out a mapping exercise and …
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Area of Work: Learning disability
New pictorial recipes available
The Edinburgh Cyrenians Good Food Programme has completed a new CFHS-funded, online pictorial recipe book for people who have difficulty reading a standard text-based recipe. It contains 16 recipes, including favourites from its Good Food Handbook, such as chicken curry and rice, and fishcakes, and newer recipes such as frittata and poached pears with chocolate …
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Area of Work: Learning disability
CFHS commission Cyrenians Good Food to adapt Good Food Handbook
We have recently commissioned the Cyrenians Good Food programme to adapt a selection of its Good Food Handbook recipes to support the availability of pictorial recipes. These will be available on the Cyrenians Good Food website later in 2013. The current Good Food handbook is available at http://cyrenians.scot/community-and-food/good-food/food-ed/
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Areas of Work: Information provision, Learning disability
Plans for accessible food and health resources on our website
We are currently making plans to develop part of our website to provide information about, and links to, quality accessible food and health resources or pictorial recipes. These will be suitable for those planning to run cooking skills activities with adults with learning disabilities, but might also be useful with other groups.
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Areas of Work: Information provision, Learning disability
Cooking up connections
This publication gives a flavour of what community food initiatives and disability learning support providers are doing to offer adults with learning disabilities access to food and health activities in order to improve their health and wellbeing.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, diet and nutrition, inclusion, learning disabilities, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Learning disability
Healthy Eating Healthy Living
This Scottish Government funded Healthy Eating, Healthy Living Project developed a multi-media educational pack consisting of 26 sessions on healthy eating for adults with learning disabilities. This included five practical cookery sessions. A small team supported six pilot sites in Greater Glasgow and Tayside to deliver the pack and this report describes how the programme …
Publisher: Glasgow City CHP South Sector Learning Disability Team Healthy Living Project
Publication categories: Business and project development, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, learning disabilities
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Learning disability
CFHS blog – How can you support people with learning disabilities to eat better?
Finding good resources suitable to help people with learning disabilities to eat well can be a real challenge. The healthy eating, healthy living training pack is a unique tried-and-tested resource that provides thorough information on how to promote healthy eating messages in an interactive, simple and fun way for people with a range of learning …