Cooked by Conte

06/01/2026

🌟 Cooked By Conte is now accepting new participants in the Fresno Area! 🌟

🧩 Looking for In-Home Culinary Support or Independent Living Support in the Fresno area?

Let’s get cooking! 👩‍🍳🍽️

Cooked By Conte provides customized culinary sessions designed around each participant’s unique needs, goals, strengths, and independence-building skills. 🧡

Our program helps participants:

- Build confidence in the kitchen 💪
- Learn practical life skills ✨
- Gain more independence through hands-on support 🥘
- Explore healthy food choices and options 🥗
- Make healthy options more familiar, accessible 🍽️
- Learn repeatable kitchen/food skills so confident choices can become part of everyday life ✨

IFs, parents, and participants are welcome to reach out! 🤝

📞 Call us at (818) 805-4547 to learn more or book a free consultation

🌐 Visit our website: www.cookedbyconte.com/pages/sdp

We bill under:
✅ Service Code 331
✅ Service Code 320

Call us and together we’ll discuss how our culinary program can support greater independence, confidence, and daily living skills. 💛

Have a great week everyone!

SDP-compliant in-home cooking support for Self-Determination Program participants. Vendor-ready services families can trust.

05/14/2026

Takeout anyone? 😁 🥠🥡🥢Sesame beef and lo mein noodles with vegetables are on the menu! Our "fast food remakes" have been a hit- skills were built, fun was had, nourishing food was prepared; we live for this!! Well done! (steak pun intended)

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible moms, grandmothers, caregivers, and mother figures in our SDP community. 💐 🌷 💛

So many of you are not only loving and supporting your children, but also advocating, planning, coordinating, learning, and fighting for the services and opportunities they deserve. 🫶 📋 ✨

Your work matters. Your love matters. Your patience, strength, and dedication are seen. ❤️ 💪 🌟

Today, we hope you feel appreciated for everything you do behind the scenes and every step you take to help your loved one grow in confidence, independence, and joy. 🌱 🧡 🙌

From all of us at Cooked by Conte, Happy Mother’s Day. We appreciate you and are honored to be part of your family’s journey. 👨‍🍳 🍽️ 💛

05/06/2026

CBC Culinary Program provides hands-on culinary instruction that helps participants learn kitchen safety, food preparation, sequencing, direction-following, problem-solving, and confidence-building skills in a supportive environment.

Talk with your Independent Facilitator to see how CBC Culinary Program can support your IPP goals and fit into your SDP spending plan.

We are happy to discuss any questions you may have, give us a call.

We work with participants in the Inland Empire, Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange County

phone: (818) 805-4547
website: www.cookedbyconte.com/pages/sdp

*NOTE: parent permission was granted for all photos posted, thank you**

05/01/2026

Helping Self-Determination Program (SDP) participants live more independent, connected, and meaningful lives is exactly why we provide services under DDS SDP Service Code 331.

Through our culinary sessions, we work one-on-one with participants in the most foundational community setting- your home kitchen- to build skills, increase independence, and support the goals identified in their Person-Centered Plan and IPP.

Service Code 331 support includes:
• Community participation
• Social and communication skill development
• Daily living and independent living skills
• Support during community activities, classes, volunteering, or recreation
• Building confidence, safety awareness, and self-advocacy
• Helping participants connect to inclusive community resources

How we provide support that:
✔ Person-centered
✔ Community-based
✔ Flexible
✔ Designed around the participant’s goals
✔ Consistent with Self-Determination principles of choice, control, and independence

If you are an SDP participant or family looking for Community Living / Community Integration support, we are here to help build culinary services that truly fit your life.

**Parental permission was granted to post these photos**

IFs, parents, and caregivers are welcome to call (818) 805-4547

05/01/2026

Helping Self-Determination Program (SDP) participants live more independent, connected, and meaningful lives is exactly why we provide services under DDS SDP Service Code 331.

Through our culinary sessions, we work one-on-one with participants in the most foundational community setting- your home kitchen- to build skills, increase independence, and support the goals identified in their Person-Centered Plan and IPP.

Service Code 331 support includes:
• Community participation
• Social and communication skill development
• Daily living and independent living skills
• Support during community activities, classes, volunteering, or recreation
• Building confidence, safety awareness, and self-advocacy
• Helping participants connect to inclusive community resources

How we provide support that:
✔ Person-centered
✔ Community-based
✔ Flexible
✔ Designed around the participant’s goals
✔ Consistent with Self-Determination principles of choice, control, and independence

If you are an SDP participant or family looking for Community Living / Community Integration support, we are here to help build culinary services that truly fit your life.

We are accepting new participants in the Bay Area.

IFs, parents and caregivers are welcome to call (818) 805-4547

04/27/2026

For many individuals in the Self-Determination Program, independence isn’t about support, it is actual real-life skills they can use every day.

🍳 That’s where hands-on cooking becomes powerful.

At Cooked by Conte, we don’t just “make recipes.”
We build Independent Living Skills (ILS) through real, practical, applied experience:

✔️ Planning and preparing meals
✔️ Following step-by-step instructions
✔️ Practicing safety and organization
✔️ Learning to make choices independently
✔️ Building confidence through repetition

Every session is:

✔️ Person-centered
✔️ IPP-driven
✔️ Adapted to each participant’s ability level
✔️ Designed around real-life independence goals

Our goal isn’t just cooking- the food we prepare together is a silver lining; a necessary byproduct of the REAL mission at hand:

👉 It’s true confidence
👉 It’s real self-sufficiency
👉 It’s giving individuals the ability to actually take care of themselves in everyday life long term

If you or someone you know is looking for meaningful ILS support, then the Cooked By Conte SDP Culinary Program is for you. Let's connect.

🤝 Reach goals and build meaningful skills together.
📞 Call (818) 805-4547 to speak to a real person.

SDP-compliant in-home cooking support for Self-Determination Program participants. Vendor-ready services families can trust.

04/24/2026

Programs like Cooked By Conte can be included in a participant’s P*P and IPP by clearly connecting the program to their goals, needs, and independence.

🌱 We focus on building real-life skills at every stage.

For foundational (CIS) goals, this can include:
🧠 Making choices (food, activities, schedules)
🪥 Learning daily routines (hygiene, chores)
💵 Understanding basic money use
🗣️ Building communication and self-advocacy
🌍 Practicing community skills in everyday settings

As participants grow, we also support ILS goals like:
🍳 Following step-by-step routines (cooking, cleanup)
⚠️ Learning safety skills (kitchen, tools)
⏱️ Managing time and completing tasks
📝 Making decisions and planning ahead
💪 Building responsibility and confidence

Cooked By Conte works directly with Independent Facilitators (IFs) and support teams to ensure everything aligns with each participant’s IPP and long-term independence goals.

Every session is:
✔ Person-centered
✔ Goal-driven
✔ Adapted to each individual
✔ Focused on real-life independence

At the end of the day, it’s not just about cooking.

👉 It’s about confidence
👉 It’s about independence
👉 It’s about learning how to take care of yourself in everyday life

✨ If you or someone you know needs support building either CIS or ILS skills, Cooked By Conte may be a great fit.

Phone: (818) 805-4547
Service Areas: Inland Empire, Riverside County, San Diego County, Orange County, Los Angeles County.
Website:

SDP-compliant in-home cooking support for Self-Determination Program participants. Vendor-ready services families can trust.

04/21/2026

🐔🍟👨‍🍳 A participant just made “Raising Canes” Chicken Fingers + Canes dipping sauce + Fries with Cooked By Conte!! 🍽️ 💥🥇

Cooked By Conte Caniac Combo? Say that 5 times fast!

Crispy, golden, and dangerously good! It disappears fast!

This was such a hit- not just to eat, but to make together. It’s hands-on, fun, and a perfect way to build real kitchen confidence while creating something everyone *wants* to eat.

And as always, we keep it clean:
We fry exclusively in BEEF TALLOW- never refined or processed seed oils.

🍽️ Real ingredients. Real skills. Real food. 👨‍🍳

We can remake Fast Food cravings and favorite with "healthier" methods that allow our participants to eat the foods they love without the parental guilt OR adverse health and behavioral effects- now that is what we call a win-win!

Do you have a fast food favorite that you would like us to recreate for your family?? Let us know!

🔥 If this sounds like something your household would love, give us a call and let's get cookin!

(818) 805-4547

04/18/2026

In our sessions, the food is not the primary objective—it is the outcome. For some participants the focus is on developing practical, repeatable life skills that support independence in everyday situations- a more hands on approach to culinary independence.

The benefits of our sessions begin before the Chef even arrives and continues long after they leave.

Each session is structured to guide the participant through a complete process. Depending on individual IPP goals, we can focus on particular aspects of this process.

Selecting a meal of their choice, identifying the required ingredients, navigating grocery selection, and executing the recipe step by step.

This approach reinforces decision-making, planning, and task completion in a real-world context. Life skills in action.

Over time, these repeated experiences build confidence around these tasks and familiarity in the kitchen- into greater independence around daily meals.

Interestingly, the prepared food is simply the byproduct of that process. Delicious meals are a reward that comes with a sense of accomplishment, learning and personal growth that lasts a lifetime.

We serve Inland Empire, San Diego County, Los Angeles County, and Orange County.

Contact us via our website: https://cookedbyconte.com/pages/sdp
or call us at: (818) 805-4547