CHSSN Health Resource Library

• Season Recap: Helping One Another
• Destination Imagination – Update from Rouyn Noranda
• Senior Wellness Centers in the Baie des Chaleurs
• The Wales Home-Therapeutic Garden
• Role of Customer services Agent for English-speaking users at the CSSS Sept-Iles
• Community Watchdog Project in Potton Township
• When I grow up (Thetford Mines)
• Yoga for all ages in the Laurentians
• Here ya go, you ol’ smoothie
• Destination Imagination (Neighbours Rouyn-Noranda)
• The York River Seniors Centre Fifty-Plus Club
  (more to come every two weeks)
  
  
• Or check out Health Check radio segments produced in 2010:
  

  - Introductory Segment

  - Educational Success: A community based approach to keeping     students in high school with Townshippers' Association.

  - Health Survival Packs on The Lower North Shore

  - A Foster Home for Grosse Isle Seniors in the Magdalen Islands

  - Collective Community Kitchen in the Outaouais

  - Senior's Health Promotion Modules with Jeffery Hale      Hospital and St. Brigid's Home.

  - Senior's Day in the Eastern Townships

  - Mental Health Telephone Workshops with AMI Quebec     through Mental Health Estrie

  - North Shore Community Association -      Cancer Awareness through Video Conferencing

  - Senior’s Day Center for Barachois in the Gaspe

  - Job Shadowing with the Megantic Community Development Corp.

  - Gaspe Recognizes World Elder Abuse Day

Let's Talk Health!  Radio Capsules

• Let's Talk Health! Pilot show on Dependencies

• Bullying

• Communication, Self-Esteem and Teens

• How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex

• Addiction and Recovery

• Online (Gaming) Addiction

• Grieving and Loss

Community Health Education Program Sessions

• Clip of a videoconferencing session on Bone Health (mpeg format - 17.1 Mb) 
• Addictions & Dependencies

  -	Center for Addiction and Mental Health
  -	Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
  -	National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
  -	Adolescents, as well as clinical materials
  -	National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  -	Additional links to addictions sites and organizations
  -	The National Anti-drug Strategy
  -	Alcoholics Anonymous
  -	Al-Anon/Al-Ateen Family Groups

• Allergies (Seasonal)

  -	Asthma Society of Canada
  -	Allergy/Asthma Information Association

• Alzheimer’s Disease

  -	Alzheimer’s Society Montreal
  -	Alzheimer Society of Canada (Quebec)
  -	Communication Strategies and Cognitive Stimulation
  -	Life History
  -	101 Things to do with a Person who has Alzheimer's Disease
  -	Communication by Stages

• Arthritis

  -	Arthritis Registry

• Body & Balance

  -	Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Living

• Bone Health

  -	Osteoporosis Canada

• Cardiovascular Wellness

  -	The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Quebec
  -	The Canadian Stroke Network

• Care-giving

  -	CAREgiving Help
  -	Support for Family and Natural Caregivers
  -	Caregiver's Bill of Rights
  -	IUGM (Only available in French)
  -	Canadian Caregiver Coalition (CCC)
  -	Vital Aging Bulletin - CSSS Cavendish
  -	Free telephone workshops with Care-Ring Voice Network

• Eye Health

  -	My Eyes are Dim and As the Eye Unfolds - Senior’s Health Promotion Workshops
  -	MAB-Makay Rehabilitation Centre

• Fall Prevention

  -	CSSS d’Argenteuil PIED/Stand-Up Programme

• Hearing Loss

  -	Quebec Order of Speech/Language Pathologists and Audiologists online
  -	The Montreal Children’s Hospital Family Resource Library (see Hearing Impairment/Deafness)
  -	SHHH

• Loss/Grieving

  -	Health Education Collection on Grief by The MUHC

• Lung Health (Asthma, Pneumonia, COPD & Flu)

  -	Asthma Society of Canada
  -	Canadian Lung Association
  -	Quebec Government’s Info Grippe web site

• Lung Health (Cancer)

  -	Cancer Care Online
  -	Living Well with Cancer
  -	Canadian Cancer Society Pamphlet on cancer and lung disease
  -	Canadian Lung Association

• Managing a Health Crisis

  -	Hero in 30 – MSSS
  -	Heart & Stroke Foundation

• Menopause

  -	Information from the Association of Obstetrics and Gynecologists of Quebec (AOGQ)

• Mental Health

  -	AMI Quebec Mental Health Tele-Workshops
  -	Depression Tribe - an online support community for depression

• Nutrition

  -	OHSSN video: Eat Good, Feel Great
  -	Canada's Food Guide
  -	SOS Cuisine – Eating well made easy
  -	Nutrition Action Healthletter provides well-researched referenced, easy to read information

• Pain Management

  -	Canadian Pain Coalition
  -	Chronic Pain Association of Quebec
  -	Canadian Pain Society

• Parkinson’s Disease

  -	Parkinson Society Quebec
  -	Parkinson Society Canada

• Prostate Cancer

  -	Canadian Prostate Cancer Network
  -	Montreal West Island Prostate Cancer Support Group
  -	Living Well with Cancer
  -	Cancer Care Online

• Senior’s Rights & Wellness (In recognition of World Elder Abuse Day)

  -	Quebec Government Portal regarding Elder Abuse
  -	CAVAC (Crime Victims Assistance Centre)
  -	EDUCALOI’s Family Violence Toolkit

• Sleep Disorders & Fatigue Management

  -	American Academy of Sleep Medicine
  -	Talk About Sleep
  -	Sleep Foundation
  -	Quebec Lung Association

Professionals

Youth

Senior's Health Promotion Workshops

1. Vision

   • 1.1 My Eyes Are Dim (Seniors Eye Problems)

   • 1.2 As the Eye Unfolds (Cataract Information Session)

2. Hearing

   • 2.1 Hearing Aids 101

3. Heart

   • 3.1 How Can You Prevent A Stroke?

   • 3.2 My Flip Flopping Heart (Irregular Heart Beat Information Session)

4. Germs & Infection Prevention

   • 4.1 Handwashing… Our Best Defence

5. First Aid

   • 5.1 Demystifying the Emergency Room Visit

   • 5.2 Basic Emergency Measures

6. Pain Management

   • 6.1 Rattle my Bones (Falls & Fractures)

   • 6.2 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

   • 6.3 Love Your feet

7. Nutrition

   • 7.1 Vitamins – Everything You Wanted To Know… But Forgot To Ask

   • 7.2 How Well Do You Eat?

   • 7.3 Reading Food Labels

8. General

   • 8.1 Women's Checklist for Healthy Living

9. Chronic Health Challenges for Seniors and Caregivers

   • 9.1 Caregivers: When Your Love One Has Dementia

   • 9.2 Caregivers: Caring For A Loved One With Incontinence/Constipation

   • 9.3 Oral Hygiene Care for Caregivers

   • 9.4 Caring for Caregivers - Learning About My New Role

   • 9.5 Living With Chronic Pain

   • 9.6 Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

   • 9.7 Living With COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)

   • 9.8 Living With Diabetes

   • 9.9 Living With Hypertension

   • 9.10 Living With Osteoporosis

Community Health Education Program Annual Reports

• Community Health Education Program (CHEP) 2010-2011  
• Community Health Education Program (CHEP) 2009-2010  
• Community Health Education Program (CHEP) 2008-2009  
• Telehealth Project - 2008  
• Community Radio Project - 2008  
• Telehealth Program and Follow-up Activity 2006-2007  
• Community Radio Project - 2007  

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