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Alberta Healthy Living Program

The Alberta Healthy Living Program provides services to those living with chronic conditions in communities throughout Alberta.

Learn more about programs:

• Tour - Become a Skilled Shopper, Dietitian offers tours of grocery stores to promote healthy eating.
• Weight Wise Education Workshops, Group education workshops designed to teach ways to manage weight and adopt healthy lifestyle changes.
• Better Choices, Better Health, A six-week workshop designed to support people living with long-term health problems (e.g., diabetes, heart disease, asthma, chronic pain).

Available in your city / town (classes, dates, times and locations):

• Grande Prairie - Healthy Living Classes (calendar)

Better Choices, Better Health

Available in your city / town (classes, dates, times and locations)

• Effective from September through December (public service announcement)

Know Your Options

Know your options so you can get the care you need when you need it. We want you to get the right care for you, in the right place. There are many options to receive the care you need. Make sure you know all the care options available and choose the one that suits you and your family.

• Cold Lake
• Fort McMurray
• Grande Prairie
• St. Paul
• Westlock

Mental Wellness Workshops

Workshops are offered every second Thursday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., cycling through all four topics during every ten-week period.

• anxiety workshop offers education about identifying and managing anxiety, while providing practical approaches to dealing with the symptoms.
  • St. Paul, Starting October 18 to March 7, 2019 (public service announcement)
• healthy relationships workshop helps participants improve communication skills and boundary setting.
• depression workshop focuses on the basics of depression, including symptoms, and highlights coping skills.
• managing difficult emotions workshop helps individuals learn basic strategies around emotional awareness and healthy expression.

Rehabilitation

• Community Rehabilitation

Postpartum Health

• Fort McMurray, Tuesdays 1pm to 2pm (public service announcement)

QuitCore

• Westlock, Wednesdays starting November 14, (public service announcement)

Screen Test

Screen Test offers screening mammograms at two fixed locations – one in Edmonton and one in Calgary. But sometimes getting to a screening clinic isn’t easy or it’s simply too far away. That’s why Screen Test also has two mobile breast cancer screening trailers that travel to about 120 communities throughout rural Alberta.

• Bonnyville, January 3-5, 7-12 (public service announcement)
• Redwater, December 13 & 14 (public service announcement)

• Beaverlodge
• Fort McMurray & Wood Buffalo
  • Fort McMurray Wildfire Response - One Year Later
• High Prairie
• Slave Lake
• Slave Lake physician update:
  • Health Advisory Council
    February 10, 2014
  • Stakeholders
    February 14, 2014
• Swan Hills physician update:
  • Stakeholders
    February 19, 2014

Health Advisory Councils (HAC)

• Map - find your council
  • Lakeland Communities
  • Lesser Slave Lake
  • Peace
  • Tamarack
  • True North
  • Wood Buffalo
• Website - learn more

Zone Leadership

Dr. Sandra Corbett is the Interim North Zone Medical Director for Alberta Health Services. She shares accountability for the North Zone with Gregory Cummings, Chief Zone Officer.

• Dr. Sandra Corbett
• Gregory Cummings

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