Free online diabetes self-management classes begin Thursday
Registration is open for a free, online series of classes on Diabetes Self Management that begins on Thursday, May 28, 2020.
What: This 6 week self-management series of workshops was developed at Stanford University and offers anyone living with diabetes — or anyone living with or caring for someone with diabetes — the tools and skills to successfully manage their condition.
Skills covered include healthy eating, physical activity, stress management, meal planning, working with your health care provider, reading food labels, and more.
Who should take these classes? Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties director Wendy Madson explained that “the purpose of this series is to help people with diabetes feel better, do the things they want to do and take control of their health. It is also very useful for anyone who is pre-diabetic or giving care to someone with diabetes.” Healthy Communities and Nye Communities Coalition are co-sponsoring the Diabetes Self Management series.
When: This opportunity to help people take charge of their own health is being offered free online May 28; June 4, 11, 18, 25 and July 2, 2020 from 1:30pm to 4pm.
Register: Contact Jenny Claypool (jclaypool@healthycomm.org) for more information or to register for the classes.
The evidence-based classes are one strategy being used in the Lyon and Storey counties region's Health and Wellness Hub, a network that includes health promotion, prevention strategies and cost-effective service delivery. Many groups and individuals, working together strategically, are expanding access to dental, medical, vision and behavioral health care and wellness education in rural Lyon and Storey counties. For more information about the Health and Wellness Hub, go to https://healthycomm.org/health-services-hub/
- 2020
- activity
- Behavioral Health
- Caregivers
- classes
- Diabetes
- Diabetes Self Management
- Food
- Free
- giving
- Health
- Health & Wellness
- health and wellness
- Healthy
- healthy eating
- help
- information
- July
- Lyon County Nevada
- May
- medical
- Nevadans and Diabetes
- online
- Opportunity
- planning
- Prevention
- reading
- Register
- Registration
- Rural
- service
- skills
- Storey County Nevada
- Wellness
- workshops
- Education
- Health Care