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Alberta Healthy Living Program (AHLP)

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)

• Whitecourt, Thursdays starting October 17 to November 28 (details)
• Mayerthorpe, Thursdays starting October 17 to November 28 (details)
• Bonnyville, Tuesdays starting October 22 to December 3 (details)
• Cold Lake, Thursdays starting October 24 to December 5 (details)
• Hinton, Wednesdays starting November 13 to December 25 (details)
• Marlboro, Wednesdays starting November 13 to December 25 (details)

Gender and Sexual Minority

Presentations will be offered to provide information on LGBTQ2IA+ children and youth.

Grande Prairie, Wednesday November 20 (details)

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.
• 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

Prenatal

The Prenatal website provides access to many resources available in your area to help you have the healthiest pregnancy possible.

QuitCore

AlbertaQuits can help you stop smoking with free, six-week workshops.

• Grande Prairie, Wednesdays starting September 18 to October 23 (details)

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.

• Gift Lake Metis Settlement, November 13 (details)
• High Prairie, November 15, 16, 18, 19, & 20 (details)
• Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation/Valleyview, November 21, 22, 25, 26 & 27 (details)
• Fox Creek, November 28, 29 & 30 (details)