Health Education Groups
The Chronic Pain Program
Have you had pain for more than 6 months? Do you take a lot of pain medication? Has treatment not made much difference to your pain? - This one-day-program aims to provide you with some skills to manage your pain, and covers topics such as the nature and anatomy of pain, coping strategies, goal setting, positive self talk, helpful devices, and more.
Venue: NYCH Collingwood Centre
Contact: Greg Bourke on 9411 3555
or
Cynthia Firth on 9349 7333
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Eat Smart - Live Well
This is an informal education program for women and men who would like to lose weight to improve their health. Eat Smart -Live Well provides participants with practical strategies to promote long term healthy lifestyle changes. Sessions can be conducted for different groups including non-English speaking communities.
Venue: NYCH Collingwood Centre,
365 Hoddle Street, Collingwood
Contact: Lina La Guardia (dietitian)
(03) 9411 4333
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Living Well With Diabetes
These information sessions are for people with Diabetes as well as family members and carers to understand and manage this condition more successfully.
The ½ day sessions are run several times during the year in different venues in the City of Yarra. To find out more - and the date of the next course - contact Sharon Malcolm.
Contact: Sharon Malcolm
(03) 9411 4333
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