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Livestrong At The YMCAS

6/21/2016 9:56:46 PM - Location: Harrisburg, PA

LIVESTRONG at the YMCA is an evidencebased program that helps adult cancer survivors reclaim their health and wellbeing following a cancer diagnosis. Participating YMCAs create a welcoming community in which survivors can improve their strength and physical fitness, diminish the severity of therapy side effects, develop supportive relationships, and improve their quality of life. Since 2007, the LIVESTRONG Foundation has been the YMCA's partner in developing and delivering LIVESTRONG at the YMCA.

Erie County Let's Move Outside! Recreational Passport Program

6/28/2016 2:59:09 PM - Location: Erie, PA

Let's Move Outside! (LMO) is a recreational trail program that encourages physical activity outdoors. 15 trails were established throughout Erie County that are either wooded or urban, providing an inexpensive opportunity to get moving throughout our local communities. Points of historical interest are highlighted along the trail, which can be found in the LMO passbook, a guide that also provides you with trail length, difficulty, etc. Participants are encouraged to walk all 15 trails and locate a hand-painted trail marker, which holds a special passcode. Collect all 15 passcodes and participants will have the chance to win prizes such as a kayak or mountain bike. This prize component is key to LMO, as it influenced greater participation AND collected the number of those who participated after registering their passcodes for the prize drawing on the www.letsmoveoutside.org website.

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Community Team

6/28/2016 3:09:22 PM - Location: Pittsburgh, PA

The Community Team utilizes an integrated care model with a whole person approach designed to improve the care of a targeted group of members with complex needs and high costs of care, including individuals with both physical and behavioral health conditions. The team-based approach draws on the unique skills of nurses, social workers, certified peer specialists/ community health workers/health coaches, as well as pharmacist and medical director support to assist members with complex needs and high utilization of inpatient care. Contact is established face to face in the hospital followed by ongoing visits and support in the members' homes to create therapeutic bonds, help build members' knowledge and self-management skills, improve care coordination among their providers, and identify and help overcome medical and psychosocial barriers to care. The Community Team health coaches meet and engage members in the community, establishing rapport, assisting with transportation needs and often accompanying members to physician visits. They help to improve members' understanding of their current health conditions, conduct psychosocial assessments and use motivational interviewing to identify members' goals and pinpoint their readiness to change. By meeting with members on their terms in their homes and communities, the health coaches are better able to understand the factors that affect their motivation and leverage those factors to promote personal responsibility in members' everyday choices for positive health outcomes.

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