CANCELLED - Gather 'Round the Table with Teens - CANCELLED

Food Education Consultant Rebecca Antill will provide in-person workshops on how to plan and deliver nutrition & cooking programs for teens, featuring how to do so with minimal kitchen access. As a former librarian, Rebecca will offer a tailored learning experience that will equip library staff to offer food programming of all levels at their libraries. Basic health and safety information, kitchen classroom management, culinary skills and community partners will all be discussed as participants cook and share time together. Bring your own apron as this cooking workshop is hands-on and very interactive!

Workshops will be offered in three locations across the state and registration is very limited.

Outcomes:

• Library staff will feel confident to host their own food education programs, and have an outlined, detailed plan for a young adult food program.
• Library staff will learn basic kitchen skills and cook at least 2 recipes.
• Library staff will learn to make a detailed plan to find at least three new partnerships in their own community specific to food or health programming.
• Library staff will be able to talk knowledgeably about basic nutrition, recipe costing, label reading, meal planning and more.
• Library staff will understand that food programming creates an opportunity for connected learning, addressing STEM skills, Social-Emotional Learning, language divides, cultural traditions, food insecurities and mental health.

Instructor: Rebecca Antill, Book/Plates Food Educator. Rebecca is a librarian with over twenty years of experience in public libraries of all sizes. Rebecca also has a Culinary Arts degree from the Culinary Institute of Charleston and is working on a business degree.

This project is made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.