Healthy Living

Gain the confidence and skills to manage your health.

In an engaging, supportive environment, Healthy Living workshop attendees and program participants gain the confidence to become more active managers of their health. Workshops and programs are:

Evidence-based
Free of charge but offer the opportunity to donate
Weekly sessions for six or eight weeks
Offered in person, by video, or by phone
Led by volunteers who often are also living with chronic conditions
Open to caregivers and loved ones as well.

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The goal is to provide health education, peer support and behavior change for people in the community who have chronic conditions as well as their caregivers.

Programs

These 6- to 8-week evidence-based workshop series provide information, practical skills, and peer support for people living with long-term health conditions. Together, we learn how to better manage our health and improve the quality of our lives. Workshops are led by a team of two trained leaders, often volunteers, who are also living with chronic conditions.

We offer workshops in person, by phone and online. Live video conferencing workshops offer the full interactive curriculum, but on a Zoom platform, with books and handouts mailed to your home and technical support for those new to video conferencing.

These programs have been shown to help people:

feel more hopeful and supported
have more energy and experience less fatigue
exercise more
experience better relationships with their doctors
and reduce doctor and emergency room visits.

Join us, and gain confidence to better manage our health!

Topics

My Life, My Health: Living Well with Long-Term Health Conditions: Provides information and practical skills that build self-confidence and help participants assume an active role in managing one or more chronic conditions. Topics include healthy eating, relaxation techniques, communicating with health professionals and loved ones, goal-setting, and problem solving.
Chronic Pain Self-Management: Provides information and practical skills that build self-confidence and help participants assume an active role in managing problems specific to chronic pain, including fatigue, frustration, and poor sleep. Topics include appropriate exercise for improving strength, flexibility, and endurance; pain management techniques; goal-setting; and problem solving.
Diabetes Self-Management: Provides information and practical skills that build self-confidence and help participants assume an active role in managing problems specific to diabetes. Topics include techniques to deal with hyper/hypoglycemia, appropriate use of medication, healthy eating, goal-setting, and problem solving.
A Matter of Balance–Managing Concerns About Falls: Teaches practical coping strategies to reduce the fear of falling and explores environmental risk factors and exercises that increase strength and balance.
Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults: Based on the USDA “My Plate” guidelines, “Healthy Eating” teaches nutrition basics including label-reading, meal planning and management of dietary patterns; while encouraging self-assessment, goal-setting, and problem solving.
EnhanceWellness Coaching: A 6-month behavior change program that offers one-on-one coaching for people with long-term health conditions to identify health risks and create a personalized health action plan. Learn more about EnhanceWellness.
Memory Training: For people with mild age-related memory challenges, Memory Training teaches memory enhancing techniques and practical strategies to boost memory functioning.