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August 20, 2026 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Community Learning Center
401 E. Diamond Street
Kendallville, IN 46755

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Diabetes Support Group

Center for Healthy Living, Support Groups

Our monthly dietitian-led Diabetes Support Group is a welcoming space to learn, share, and feel supported on your journey. Each session features expert guest speakers from a variety of specialties, including weight management, optometry, wound care, pharmacy, and exercise physiology, who offer helpful tips for staying healthy and preventing complications. You’ll receive evidence-based nutrition guidance, learn new skills, and have your questions answered in a supportive, encouraging environment. This group is open to anyone looking to better manage their diabetes and connect with others on a similar journey. 

Cost: Free

Registration is recommended. 

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Homemade Baby Food

Baby food can be easy, nutritious, and affordable to make at home! This interactive class, led by Crystal Ruisard, MHS, RDN, LD, community outreach dietitian, Parkview Center for Healthy Living, will cover:

Signs that your baby is ready for solids
How to safely prepare and store homemade baby food
Ways to introduce a variety of flavors, textures, and nutrients during the first year of life

Participants will take home their prepared baby food and receive a baby food bowl set. This program requires at least 3 participants and allows up to 6.   

Cost: $20

Registration is required. 

August 06, 2026 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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Type 1 Diabetes Support Group

Living with diabetes presents a host of challenges and lifestyle changes – but you don’t have to navigate them alone. If you or a loved one is living with type 1 diabetes or a related condition, it can be helpful to hear from others who share your experience. Join Parkview’s endocrinology experts each month for helpful group discussions and insights on how to manage type 1 diabetes.

Cost: Free

Registration is not required. If you have questions about the Type 1 diabetes support group, please contact Alexandra.DeLellis@parkview.com.

Directions to conference rooms A and B: Once inside Entrance 1, go past the waterfall and cafeteria. Conference rooms A and B are the first two rooms on the left after the double doors.

August 08, 2026 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Parkview Regional Medical Center

Support Groups

Cooking Demonstration: Produce Passport

Have you ever spotted an unfamiliar fruit or vegetable and wondered what it tasted like or how to prepare it? Expand your produce palette with Crystal Ruisard, MHS, RDN, LD, community outreach dietitian, Parkview Center for Healthy Living, as she introduces you to those hidden gems of the produce aisle: how they taste, how to select and store them, how to prepare them, and the unique nutrients they provide. This program requires at least 10 participants and allows up to 20.   