Chew Cafe:
A Hybrid Academic Enrichment Program Through Culinary
This program serves children ages 7–12 and their families in Clayton County, Georgia. The program equips children with essential life and leadership skills through hands-on cooking experiences. Through a hybrid model of take-home culinary kits plus in-person sessions, participants engage in structured activities that build confidence, teamwork, decision-making, and responsibility. Sessions integrate nutrition education, budgeting, and real-world problem-solving while encouraging youth to take ownership of their health and food choices.
A core element of Chew Café is intergenerational mentorship, where youth learn alongside parents and community mentors, fostering positive relationships and social development. The program also introduces early entrepreneurship by exposing participants to concepts such as meal planning, cost analysis, and small-scale food-based business ideas. By combining practical skill-building with leadership development, Chew Café empowers youth to become informed, capable, and health-conscious individuals who can positively influence their families and communities.
Color My Plate with Pilot Rainbow
The Building Healthy Lifestyles program features our “Color My Plate with Pilot
Rainbow” nutrition game initiative created and patented by Successful Kids
Learning Solutions facilitates developing healthy eating habits for children between
the ages of 6 to 10. Activities include repetition of basic nutrition concepts,
including label reading, proper serving sizes, and appropriate utilization of fats,
salts, and carbohydrates. Children will engage in interactive activities to build
skills for nutritious meal planning and incorporating healthy snacking option. This
game is played over a 6-week period with a specific curricular designed by the
game developer. The game was awarded patent January 2018. Gardening activities
will also be incorporated as a part of the curriculum with a community garden on
the premises where participants will learn the principles of sowing and growing
vegetables This initiative is known as “Sowing and Growing with Pilot
Rainbow”. Basic knowledge questions are integrated into the game, “Color my
Plate with Pilot Rainbow.”