Help others live with chronic conditions
Volunteer health leaders needed-no experience necessary! Do you like to help advise friends and family with their health, do you have a chronic condition? Make new friends, have fun, be part of an exciting worldwide volunteer program, impact people’s lives positively, and help maintain your own self-management skills by becoming a Living Well Leader!
The Deschutes County Living Well With Chronic Conditions program is now recruiting Living Well Leaders to facilitate Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) workshops for people who have one or more chronic conditions (diabetes, emphysema, arthritis, migraine headaches, and heart disease, for example). Leaders will always co-facilitate with each other, no previous knowledge about chronic illness needed-all teaching is done from a detailed manual.
How to become a Living Well Leader: If you’re curious about helping others live healthier, then don’t miss the next Living Well Program Leader training to be held in Bend December 8, 9, 15, and 16 (this is a free, four-day training, 6-hours a day.) Once trained, leaders are expected to co-facilitate one or two six-week workshops each year, and attend a yearly update. Potential Leaders must attend all four days of the free training and be prepared to complete applicable evening homework assignments.
Participants must facilitate a program to become a Leader. The training is limited to 15 participants. Interviews will be conducted to assess trainee interest and understanding of the volunteer-lay leader role.No prior teaching experience is required and applicants don’t have to have a health background. It is helpful if trainees have a chronic condition themselves and have learned to manage their own condition, and have a desire to help others.Trainees must demonstrate their facilitation and teaching skills twice during the four day training.
To apply: Please apply for the Leader Training by Thursday, December 4, to be considered. Successful applicants will be notified by December 5. Applications can be obtained by calling
(541) 350-2912 or (541) 330-4640, or by sending email to Brenda.Johnson@deschutes.org .
Living Well workshops help to achieve a healthier way of living for people living with ongoing health conditions begin and are held in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson Counties in both English and Spanish. For more information about the Living Well With Chronic Conditions training program or chronic disease maintenance classes for the public, please call (541) 350-2912. Visit www.livingwellco.org for more information.
