Curricula

Steps to Your Health—SC   Target Audience People with cognitive disabilities   Steps to Your Health, an evidenced based ten-week health education program focuses on the essential steps to improve fitness and health behaviors. Steps to Your Health is highly effective with adults with cognitive disabilities from widely diverse backgrounds.  Participants with mental retardation, brain… Read More »»

Access to Fitness and Exercise Opportunities–RI        Target Audience      People with disabilities              The Disability and Health Program (DHP) works with Access2Adventure and the YMCA to perform fitness facility assessments and provide technical assistance to facilities to increase access to accessible facilities throughout Rhode Island.   Materials Utilized     AIMFREE, designed by the National Center for… Read More »»

Healthy Lifestyles—OR   Target Audience People with disabilities Healthy Lifestyles (HL) is a health promotion intervention appropriate for people with all types of disabilities, including people with various cognitive abilities, that provides participants with knowledge and skills to adopt healthier behaviors. A Healthy Lifestyles workshop is conducted over the course of three days and uses… Read More »»

Living Well with a Disability—NM Target Audience People with mobility limitations The Office of Disability in the New Mexico Department of Health and Center for Development and Disability at the University of New Mexico offer the Living Well with a Disability health promotion intervention. Living Well is an 8-week, 16-hour course that uses goal setting… Read More »»

Women be Healthy—NC   Target Audience      Adult women with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities who possess sufficient receptive and expressive communications skills to comprehend the instructional material and participate in role-play situations   The Women Be Healthy curriculum was developed to teach groups of women with intellectual disabilities about reproductive health and breast and cervical… Read More »»

Living Well with a Disability—IA   Target Audience      Adults with disabilities   The Center for Disabilities and Development at The University of Iowa provides the Living Well with a Disability program, which is an 8-week, 16-hour course that uses goal setting and problem solving as a framework on which to build healthier lifestyles. Adults with… Read More »»