The Teen2Chef Food Skills Program is now available to download for Registered Dietitians in both French and English.
This program is a 10-week food skills program designed for Registered Dietitians to run with teen populations (age 12-17). The program can be downloaded for free from our resource page for healthcare professionals.
The Teen2Chef program was developed using an iterative process. Focus groups were held with teens to discuss what nutrition topics they were most interested in learning about, the involved RDs used this information to help lead their curriculum.
The content was built utilizing resources from the 4 Children’s Hospitals involved and adapted for the Meant2Prevent program.
Teen2Chef was developed as a 10-week program, with suggested modifications for a 4 or 6-week course. Each week is broken down into 3 components:
Teen2Chef was created by Registered Dietitians from 4 of our participating sites cross Canada.
Mara Alexanian-Farr MSc, RD
Alissa Steinberg RD
Alisa Bar-Dayan RD
Mara Alexanian-Farr MSc, RD
Lisa Dooley RD
Paula Canning RD
Amandine Moukarzel RD