Live Like Your Life Depends On It
Master Trainers Tammy Hamilton, RD, LD, Health Care Coordinator
– St. Louis Area Agency on Aging, and Orvie Prewitt ,Program
Coordinator – KC Regional Arthritis Center, graduated their
third class of Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Leaders.
Ten enthusiastic new leaders from across the Eastern Region
completed the four-day training course on September 18, 2009.
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP), developed
at Stanford University, is called “Live Like Your Life Depends
On It”.
The CDSMP “Live Like Your Life Depends On It” is supported
by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior cervices Heart
Disease and Stroke Prevention Program, the CDC Heart Disease
and Stroke Grant, and the Missouri Regional Arthritis Program.
This group of new CDSMP Leaders will facilitate, in their
community, a six-week workshop that provides tools for living
a healthy life with chronic health conditions, including diabetes,
arthritis, asthma and heart disease. Through weekly sessions,
the workshop provides support for continuing normal daily activities
and dealing with the emotions that chronic conditions may bring
about. For more information about the Chronic Disease Self-Management
Program, contact the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging at 314-657-1670.
CDSMP Leader: Patricia McClendon – Pulaski
Co. Health Dept.; Deborah Baker – Pulaski Co. Health Dept.;
Janice Fisher – Mid
East Area Agency on Aging; Beverly Russell- City of St. Louis
DOH; Alfreda Smith – City of St. Louis DOH; Misty Murphy –
New Madrid Co. Family Resource Center; Monica Branam – Miss.
Co. Caring Community Resource Center; Deborah Flaugher – Deaconess
Parish Nurse Ministries; Viviane McKay – St. Louis Co. DOH;
and Denise Burns – The Women’s Safe House.
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