Living Well Iowa

Resources for Certified Facilitators

How to become a certified Living Well Iowa facilitator

Setting up a Living Well program

• Becoming a host site

• Choosing a location that is accessible, using this accessibility checklist.

Planning the course

• The Living Well Planner is a step-by-step, week-by-week checklist you can use to set up a Living Well course. It also walks you through each of the activities that make up the 8-week course.

Recruiting participants

• The Participant Recruitment Manual discusses who to recruit and provides information on best recruiting practices. Includes sample brochures and press releases. Sponsored sites complete Recruiting and Marketing Log as part of the evaluation process.
   

• Marketing Health Promotion for People with Disabilities

Materials

• Living Well Iowa health evaluation questionnaire (PDF) for participants in research component.

• Living Well with a Disability Manual: Living Well sponsored sites receive a full set of manuals in all formats for loan to participants. Extra manuals may be purchased from the University of Montana, Rural Institute on Disabilities.

• Living Well with a Disability Handouts: These supplement the manual; each participant should get a copy.

• Living Well with a Disability: Iowa Senior Supplement: Modifications that  make this course more meaningful for older participants.

• Continuing to Live Well course manual (in PDF or MS Word): Each participant should get a copy.

• Continuing to Live Well workbook (in PDF or MS Word)

: This supplements the manual; again, each participant should get a copy.

• Best Practices in Developing Peer Support: Peer support is the number one reason participants return to class. This offers strategies for building peer support within the class, and promoting ongoing peer support after the course is completed.

• Confidentiality Policy: For facilitators, for participants.

• CIL Invoice, in DOC or XLS format

Alternate formats
Whenever possible, Living Well Iowa makes information available in alternate formats, such as large print, Braille, audio, diskette. To request materials in an alternate format, please contact the Living Well Program Consultant.

Research and evaluation resources for sponsored hosts

• Research instructions: Detailed instructions for getting informed consent, completing and collecting research surveys, and preserving confidentiality.

• Confidentiality policy: Outlines the Living Well confidentiality policy, suggests ways to orient participants to confidentiality rules, and discusses two exceptions to the rule.

• Informed consent: The letter and permission form used to document informed consent by participants before they complete the questionnaire; approved by the University of Iowa Internal Review Board.

• Living Well Iowa evaluation questionnaire: Participants complete this questionnaire once before taking Living Well, and three times after the completing the course.

• Consumer Satisfaction Survey: Living Well with a Disability
  Participants complete this during the final LWD class. (Also available in MS Word).

• Consumer Satisfaction Survey: Continuing to Live Well with a Disability
  Participants complete this during the final CLWD class. (Also available in MS Word).

Additional resources

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