North Zone Alberta Healthy Living Program
The Alberta Healthy Living Program (AHLP) offers free workshops to help adults better manage their chronic conditions. The workshops are offered virtually (by Zoom) to all those living in Northern Alberta. Click on the boxes below for the class that interests you to see the schedule and register.
Peer Coaching for Healthy Living
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
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The Peer Coaching for Healthy Living Program series is for people with ongoing chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, pain, obesity, heart conditions, high blood pressure, multiple sclerosis, etc.
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The program matches a participant and a trained volunteer health coach, and they will meet for 30 minutes, once/week for 12 weeks, over the phone.
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Participants can have varying chronic conditions. Participants learn the skills needed in the day-to-day management of long-term illnesses and how to maintain and/or increase life’s activities. A key objective of the program is to improve participant’s self-management by increasing goalsetting, decision making, and problem solving to identify healthy and unhealthy behaviors, and practice self-care skills.
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There is no cost to become a coach, or a participant
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Coaches and participants both receive a textbook manual that provides valuable information about how to manage a chronic condition
For more information about the program, click the button below to connect with one of our program team members who will contact you to discuss your interest further.