Living Healthy Champlain.ca

Please view our Monthly Article on Chronic Disease and Exercise. Each Month Fitness for Freedom provides us with insight on different aspects of Exercise and how it impacts Chronic Disease!

Looking for more support in your community?
October 15, 2012

We know it can sometimes be challenging to manage your condition, and thus we want to provide you with some additional resources available in your community.

Reconnect and Refresh!: Arnprior

The Diabetes Resources listing

DRCC, Stand up to Diabetes!

Exercise Program in Hawkesbury!

Eating well with Colitis

Heart Wise Exercise partners with community organizations to identify exercise facilities and classes that are suitable for individuals with, or at risk of developing a cardiovascular or chronic health condition. For a complete list of Heart Wise Exercise facilities please visit. http://www.heartwiseexercise.ca/

Peer Leader Training Opportunity!
February 02, 2012

The “Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions” workshop helps people with chronic health conditions to better manage their symptoms and their daily life. It is FREE to participants, and participants receive the Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions reference book for free. All participants must pre-register for a workshop. We suggest participants attend all six sessions if possible. The more sessions attended, the more benefit!

The workshop is led by two leaders who have taken special training. The leaders are volunteers or health care professionals, many of whom have chronic conditions themselves

Peer Leader Training is four 8-hour days. This training will consist of two days the first week and two the following week. Training will be held in English.

Leaders are individuals interested in teaching and empowering others to better manage their chronic conditions and to live a healthy life. As a leader, you will have the satisfying task of integrating the contents of the program and learning group facilitation skills that can be transferred to other areas of your life. Most importantly, you will watch people affected by chronic conditions successfully manage their health conditions by using the skills and tools that you have shared with them.

Leaders may be lay people or health care professionals. Regardless, they act as peers when leading the workshop, not as health experts. Two Peer Leaders always work together to deliver the workshops.

If you would like to register please contact 1.877.240.3941 or click here:

The Training session will be held in English, however we can provide French Peer Leader manuals to those who wish to facilitate the workshops in either language.

Self-Management Support: Training For Healthcare Providers
December 15, 2011

Motivational Interviewing with Dr. Michael Vallis

September 10, 11, 12 at Bruyere Continuing Care

Please click here for more information, this session is free to attend.

Choices & Changes: Now Available!

A team of Trained Health Professionals will be able to provide on-site training for your organization.

The C&C workshop is accredited by the CFPC for 1 Mainpro-M1 credit for every hour of CME, up to 6 credits in total.

There are a number of different agendas to choose for the C&C workshop- ½ day workshop is 4.5 hours, the full day is 6.5 (with lunch in the middle); there are also 4 1-hr modules and 2 2-hour modules, and a 1 hour Lunch and Learn Session

Contact Rachel Davdison for more information: rdavidson@bruyere.org

Lunch and Learns

If your organization is interested in implementing self-management into practice a lunch and learn can be very beneficial to ensure a consistent and coherent understanding and approach to self-management.

These sessions can also be highly beneficial for those organizations that may have already received some training in self-management, and/or are currently running the Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions workshop.

A needs assessment will allow Living Healthy Champlain to identify your organization’s current approach to implementing self-management and support overcoming some barriers that could prevent you from utilizing the skills you have learned.

Please contact Rachel Bowen, Regional Coordinator, Chronic Disease Self-Management for more information.

Rdavidson@bruyere.org

Self-Management Workshops: November - February
October 17, 2011

The “Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions” workshop helps people with chronic health conditions to better manage their symptoms and their daily life. It is FREE to participants, and participants receive the Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions reference book for free. All participants must pre-register for a workshop. We suggest participants attend all six sessions if possible. The more sessions attended, the more benefit!

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Ellwood House

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Arnprior FHT

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: West Carelton Family Health Team

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Centre D'Estrie

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Centretown Comunity Health Centre

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Glengarry Nurse Practioner Led Clinic

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Clementine Blvd

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Whitewater Bromley CHC

Call 1.877.240.3941 or Click Here to Register for the Workshop

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