Community Health Workers
Community Health Workers (CHW) The Community Health Worker (CHW) Program expands access to trusted, local support for individuals and families
Community Health Workers
Programs
Healthy Families
Healthy Families North Dakota
Uspire ND: Healthy Families North Dakota Healthy Families North Dakota is a free, voluntary home visiting program designed to support
Empowered Caregivers, Powerful Tools for Caregivers
The Empowered Caregiver Series
Alzheimer’s Association: The Empowered Caregiver The courses aim to help caregivers, family members, and any individuals impacted by dementia feel
Diabetes Management
Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
As a participant of the National Diabetes Prevention Program, you will work with a trained lifestyle coach and other participants to learn the skills you need to make lasting changes. You will learn to eat healthy, add physical activity to your life, manage stress, stay motivated, and solve problems that can get in the way.
Better Choices, Better Health, Chronic Pain and Disease Management
Better Choices, Better Health: Chronic Pain
This class is designed for people who have a diagnosis of chronic pain and their caregivers, offering strategies for dealing with their symptoms. Topics include: techniques to deal with frustration, fatigue, isolation, and poor sleep, appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, appropriate use of medications, communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals.
Better Choices, Better Health, Chronic Pain and Disease Management
Better Choices, Better Health: Chronic Conditions
This program is designed to help participants deal with chronic conditions. Topics include: techniques to deal with frustration, fatigue, pain, and isolation, appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance, appropriate use of medications, communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals, nutrition, and how to evaluate new treatments.
Falls Prevention
Fit and Strong!
Fit & Strong! is an exercise/behavior change program for older adults or those with lower extremity osteoarthritis. This 12-week program includes 60 minutes of exercise and 30 minutes of group discussion/health education.
Falls Prevention
Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance
Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance® (TJQMBB) is an evidence-based fall prevention program designed for older adults developed by Fuzhong Li, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute. TJQMBB represents a substantive enhancement of traditional Tai Ji Quan as it transforms martial arts movements into a therapeutic regimen aimed at improving postural stability, awareness and mindful control of body positioning functional walking, movement symmetry and coordination, range of motion around the ankle and hip joints and lower – extremity muscle strength.
Falls Prevention
Stepping On
Stepping On is for people 60 and older who live independently. Over seven-weeks participants are provided information and skills to reduce falls and increase self-confidence in situations where they are at risk of falling. It covers a range of topics, including falls and fall risk, strength and balance exercises, home hazards, safe footwear, vision and falls, safety in public places, community mobility, coping after a fall, and how to initiate a medication review.
Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Powerful Tools for Caregivers (PTC) is an evidence-based, self-care education program for family caregivers. Originally developed by caregivers of adults with chronic conditions, Powerful Tools for Caregivers has expanded the program to include classes for parents of children with special needs.