Health In Our Hands is a community based and operated organisation run entirely by volunteers. We work in partnership with our local hospital. Our activities are all based around Chronic Disease Self-Management and in particular the Stanford Model for which we hold a licence. Our centre has a room at the Whyalla Hospital which is open to the public five days per week. The centre also runs some of its programs at other locations in the community.
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Shape Up For Life....
A new program will be starting up soon. it is a free weight management program. further information on their facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/katrina.knights.18
well worth thinking about.
https://www.facebook.com/katrina.knights.18
well worth thinking about.
Monday, 16 July 2012
Celebrating 10 Years
And what a celebration it has been. Health in Our hands, which commenced on 15th May, 2002 has been working in the Whyalla community for 10 years. Celebrations were held with:
* A luncheon for the participants at the Centre’s room at the hospital
*A dinner for the volunteers at Roopena and
*A function at the UniSA Whyalla Campus for specially invited guests and the volunteers
The UniSA function was organised by Kate Warren and her staff at the Spencer Gulf Rural Health School. To say that all three functions were successful would be an understatement.
A special gift was presented to the four original members still active at the centre for their 10 years of service. The presentations were made to Paul Holmes, Mary Holmes, Chris Broadhead and Colin Stephens.
When Paul was asked whether he would still be there after another 10 years, he laughingly replied that he hoped that he would still be around to still be taking part.
Paul thanked all the volunteers who have worked so hard to make the Health In Our Hands a success and thanked the current volunteers for their dedication and hard work.
A special gift was presented to the four original members still active at the centre for their 10 years of service. The presentations were made to Paul Holmes, Mary Holmes, Chris Broadhead and Colin Stephens.
When Paul was asked whether he would still be there after another 10 years, he laughingly replied that he hoped that he would still be around to still be taking part.
Paul thanked all the volunteers who have worked so hard to make the Health In Our Hands a success and thanked the current volunteers for their dedication and hard work.
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
10th Aniiversary Function
Here is the Ch 4 News item regarding our 10th Anniversary organised by Kate and her wonderful staff at UniSA in Whyalla.
Many thanks for a wonderful day Kate, Jackie, Katrina and all the other people concerned.
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Our AGM Today
Don't forget that our AGM will be held today, 2nd July, 2012 at 1.00pm today at the SGRHS room MB1-41 at the UniSA. See you there...
Saturday, 23 June 2012
Pathways through Diabetes!
Update 2/06/2012: Course Venue now at Whyalla Civic Library
We will soon be running the next 'Pathways Through Diabetes' course.
The course is a practical application of ideas that have been studied and researched at the Patient Education Research Centre at Stanford University-California by Prof. Kate Lorig. These workshops are being successfully conducted throughout the world with a high success rating.
"What will the course give me?"
The course is a 6 week workshop (2 1/2 hour a week) designed to help people with diabetes live with the day to day problems they face. The workshop will cover:
- Ways of preventing low blood sugar
- Preventing or delaying complications
- Dealing with stress
- Positive thinking
- Reading food labels and healthy eating.
- Strategies for sick days
- Foot care
And lots more information, sharing of ideas and tips and tricks.
We will soon be running the next 'Pathways Through Diabetes' course.
The course is a practical application of ideas that have been studied and researched at the Patient Education Research Centre at Stanford University-California by Prof. Kate Lorig. These workshops are being successfully conducted throughout the world with a high success rating.
"What will the course give me?"
The course is a 6 week workshop (2 1/2 hour a week) designed to help people with diabetes live with the day to day problems they face. The workshop will cover:
- Ways of preventing low blood sugar
- Preventing or delaying complications
- Dealing with stress
- Positive thinking
- Reading food labels and healthy eating.
- Strategies for sick days
- Foot care
And lots more information, sharing of ideas and tips and tricks.
The course will commence on Monday, July 16th, 2012 at the WHYALLA CIVIC LIBRARY at 1.30pm. For further information please contact us on the above details (as in our banner). The course will be an enjoyable, friendly and informative course. See you there...
Friday, 22 June 2012
Male Out has come and gone...
Male Out has been and was a total, total success! The Health In Our Hands stand was a bit out of the way unfortunately but none-the-less, Paul and John deemed it to be a successful day. We did receive a lot of attention from the public and lots of information was handed out as well. Brenda and Teena prepared lots of information packs and about a third of them were handed out. We also gave about 90% of the books we took down away to the public as well. We were pleased with the results and look forward to next year's Male Out.
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