Living Well with a Disability Facilitator Training

Living Well with a Disability Facilitator Training Opportunities

Living Well with a Disability Facilitator Training

The Living Well with a Disability internet-based training program, sponsored by The University of Montana Rural Institute - Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities, includes four meetings scheduled over two weeks. For training dates and registration information, e-mail Tracy Boehm at boehm@ruralinstitute.umt.edu or call 406-243-5741 .

Living Well with a Disability is a health promotion workshop for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. It is based on research designed to reduce the occurrence of secondary conditions -- those health related conditions that develop as a result of a person's original disability or chronic illness. Secondary conditions can limit a person's independence and participation in activities.

Who can facilitate a Living Well group?

Living Well materials are written so that laypersons, peer counselors or health professionals can use them. To maintain the quality and consistency of the program, we do request that all facilitators receive training through the Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities. Aside from the information provided in the training, no additional expertise is required for facilitating a successful Living Well group.

There are three types of trainings:

Web-based: Trainers and facilitator trainees connect via conference calls and the Internet for four two-hour, real-time sessions. Each facilitator trainee receives a Living Well with a Disability manual and learns the materials and techniques necessary to help people with disabilities set quality-of-life goals that lead to healthy lifestyle changes. Alternative format materials are available on request.

On-site Training: A trainer will travel to your location and conduct a two-day, fourteen-hour workshop for up to 20 facilitator trainees. Cost: $2,500, plus travel expenses.

Summer/Winter Training Institutes: Come to Missoula, Montana for your training and take advantage of our state's fly-fishing opportunities, ski resorts, national parks and great beauty! Two-day institutes provide fourteen hours of training for up to 40 facilitator trainees. Cost: $495 per person. Travel expenses are the responsibility of each individual or sponsoring organization.

For more information, contact:

Tracy Boehm, Living Well Coordinator
Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities
The University of Montana Rural Institute: Center for Excellence in
Disability Education, Research and Services
52 Corbin Hall, Missoula, MT 59812-7056
406-243-5741 or 888-268-2743
boehm@ruralinstitute.umt.edu

For more details on the Living Well program, check out this presentation:

Living Well with a Disability Symposium: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Nationally Recognized Health Promotion Intervention for Adults with Disabilities PowerPoint Presentation at "Navigating Our Future: Aligning Strategies and Science", the 2nd National Conference of the National Center on Birth Defects, Developmental Disabilities, Disability and Health and Inheritable Blood Disorders, Washington DC, July 26-28, 2004. PDF format