Healthy Change: Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Chronic Pain and Cancer Thriving and Surviving Program

The "Healthy Change with Chronic Conditions" six-week self-management workshop empowers people to live well while dealing with conditions such as diabetes, lupus, heart disease, arthritis, lung disease such as COPD, cancer, fibromyalgia, crohn's & colitis and other chronic health issues.

You will develop new tools and skills that break the "symptom cycle," to feel better, and do more of the activities you love and enjoy. Workshops are led by peers, people who have a chronic condition including cancer or are themselves care givers.

The "Healthy Change" is the  Self-Management Resource Center Chronic Disease Self-Management workshop and is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Check workshop dates on our website or feel free to call. 

Cancer Surviving and Thriving 

Subjects covered include: 1) techniques to deal with problems such as frustration, fatigue, pain, isolation, poor sleep and living with uncertainty, 2) appropriate exercise for regaining and maintaining flexibility, and endurance, 3) making decisions about treatment and complementary therapies, 4) communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals, 5) nutrition, 6) setting priorities, and 7) relationships. A Spanish translation of the program is also available.