Join us for Live Heart Smart, a half-day event dedicated to heart health.This fun and interactive educational event will leave you with plenty of practical knowledge and strategies to begin or recharge a Heart Smart way of life! Click here for full agenda with objectives.
Live Heart Smart will include:
- Welcome/ North Country Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) Overview
- Keynote address: "The Heart is the Seat of the Body"
Breakout sessions 1:
- "Living an Anti-Inflammatory Life" - Learn the role of inflammation in the body, it's connection to heart disease, and how to control inflammation through lifestyle factors, including diet and nutrition.
- "Practical Fitness for Heart Health" - Understand and apply simple and effective "do anywhere" fitness strategies to begin and progress on a program for heart health and overall wellness, regardless of your age or current ability level.
- "Community Health Workers" - Learn about the role of community health workers (CHW) in the health care landscape, including as advocates for patients with chronic conditions.
Breakout sessions 2:
- "Take a Moment for Yourself: Mindfulness Tools to Reduce Stress and Encourage Heart Health" - Understand the concepts of mindfulness and how it can support heart health; Experience mindfulness through guided practice and discover ways to incorporate mindfulness into daily life.
- "Move Your Cheese" - Identify root causes and lifestyle behaviors that increase the risk of heart disease; explore how ambivalence impacts health behavior and develop a mental tool box to improve your consistency to adopt behavior change.
Continuing Nursing Education:
North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited Approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This activity was approved for 3 Nursing Contact Hours. Activity 376.
Registration Fee: $25.00
Includes half-day educational sessions, a healthy lunch, and bonus cookbook gift titled "Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day," By Leanne Brown.