Education and Skills Building
Food for Mood's educational programs highlight how healthy diet and lifestyle choices build emotional resiliency and equip participants with the information, tools, and encouragement necessary to create their own habit-changing game plans.
Programs
Healthy Teens
Depression and anxiety are affecting teens at an alarming rate. Healthy Teens uses straightforward language to highlight the role that typical teenage habits – unhealthy eating, inadequate sleep, and a sedentary lifestyle – play in the development and persistence of mood and anxiety disorders and empowers teens to make positive, mood-enhancing changes. A two-session, classroom-based program for high school and college students. Virtual or in person.
Healthy Teens - Caregivers
There can be a feeling of helplessness when a loved one is suffering from a mood or anxiety disorder. Supporting a healthy diet and lifestyle is a positive way to assist, but it can sometimes lead to pushback and resentment. This program teaches parents and other caregivers the fundamentals of healthy eating and focuses on modeling healthy behavior through meal planning, purchase, and preparation decisions. A one-session program for PTOs and family support groups. Virtual or in person.
Grocery Guidance and Pantry Repair
Food labels can be confusing and misleading. Grocery Guidance teaches how to navigate the grocery aisles and decipher the nutritional information on food labels. Pantry Repair expands on Grocery Guidance by assessing pantry and refrigerator contents and making recommendations to optimize healthy food choices. Quick, easy, and nutritious meal preparation will also be discussed. In both programs, the goal is to take the stress out of healthy meal planning. One-session programs can be done separately or as a two-session package. Virtual.