The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.
Providence Milwaukie Foundation
Healthy nutrition is essential to a healthy life. Our innovative teaching kitchen helps community members address food insecurity and incorporate healthy food into their diets.
It’s hard to maintain a healthy weight, manage health issues such as diabetes or cancer treatment, and offer healthy food options to the whole family if you don’t know where to start. Our innovative teaching kitchen works to create a healthier community through one-on-one outpatient nutrition counseling, regular screening for food insecurity and access to a navigator for individualized resources.
Our family market provides a wide variety of dry, fresh and frozen foods to help families who are facing hunger. Hands-on cooking classes provided by our chef teach our patients and community members how to prepare healthy, affordable meals, and our registered dietitian provides nutrition information and guidance to make healthy food choices. All of this educational support and access to food are provided at no cost to patients and community members in a supportive and non-judgmental environment.
Providence Milwaukie’s Community Teaching Kitchen receives referrals from providers who have screened patients for food insecurity, and it conducts ongoing screening for everyone who comes in the door. Families in need of resources can access onsite resources, including in-person navigation and our Family Market.
By providing food and the skills to prepare it, we can meet the needs of our patients and improve the health of our community.
Video equipment
When the pandemic hit and our facilities were closed, we purchased video equipment so we could offer classes online.
Home delivery
We partnered with Ride Connection to deliver food boxes to families who could not come to the facility due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Specialized classes
Gifts to the teaching kitchen allow us to offer specialized classes for health conditions such as diabetes and cancer. Philanthropy also makes it possible to offer some classes in Spanish.
