Cooking Up Change:

Resources designed to help you shop, cook, and eat well

Our Cooking Up Change program at Near North Health was created to promote better health for all by empowering patients to take an active role in managing and improving their nutritional wellness.

Patients learn tools for a healthy lifestyle and disease prevention/management through outreach, workshops, individual counseling, and single-session or multi-session group classes.

By providing education, increasing awareness, and offering support and self-management tools, we’re making it easier for patients to practice healthy behaviors and manage their health and/or disease.

Clinical Nutrition: A key part of our Cooking Up Change program

NNH’s registered dietitian provides both individual and group counseling and follow-up to adults and children in need of nutritional therapy for the management of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, HIV/AIDS, and more.

Our program includes services surrounding:

  • Pre–Diabetes
  • Type 1 & 2 High Blood Pressure/Hypertension
  • High Cholesterol Overweight/Obesity Stress
  • Coping/Management
  • Exercise/Meditation
  • Healthy Eating

Near North Care Coordinators will:

  • Work with patients to develop individualized healthcare plans
  • Work with providers to schedule appointments and obtain required referrals for needed
  • Provide ongoing case management services
  • Participate in systematic efforts to monitor the appropriateness of treatment

More ways to start Cooking Up Change

The Near North Dish

Need inspiration for healthy, affordable meals your whole family will love? We’ve got you covered. Our recipes and instructional videos are designed to help you eat well on a budget to keep yourself, and your family, nourished, healthy, and thriving.

Teaching Kitchen Collaborative

As a member of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, we volunteer our kitchen facility as a teaching space for nutrition education in our community so more of us can learn to cook, eat, and feed our families well.

The Love Fridge

As a designated Love Fridge location, we’re standing in solidarity with our community to fight back against food apartheid and waste in our city’s Dignity Deserts.