Health Management Strategies for Recovery

10 75 minute classes for our clients. Take one class or all 10. Client must be part of HMSR program to be eligible. Dates and times TBA. Clients will be followed by HMSR RN. Initial interview is approx. 45 min.

1.) Understanding Your Illness from Head to Toe: Participants will identify psychiatric and medical illnesses they are living with along with the challenges that impact on family, social, and occupational functioning. Participants will learn about health risks that are unique to persons with mental illness and how HMSR can be helpful. 2.) Defining Health and Healthy Living: Participants will understand the concepts that define overall healthincluding a more holistic definition including intellectual, spiritual and environmental dimensions. Social health and healthy relationships will be discussed and explored as well as recognizing signs of physically compromised health and well-being. 3.) Preventing and Managing Health Problems: Participants will identify specific strategies for managing symptoms and will understand their role in determining the outcome of their illness/s.Individual plans will be developed to prevent relapse and crises. 4.) Choosing Support Systems to Promote Recovery: Participants will learn about and understand the importance of social support and its relationship to health and wellness. Clients will identify strategies to increase social support and identify key people, groups or systems that will be instrumental in their recovery and continued success. 5.) Understanding and Using Medication Effectively: Participants will learn what/how to ask their prescribers important questions and to make informed decisions about the medications they take. Clients will develop a plan that enables them to better manage their medications and side effects. 6.) Being Well and a Well-Being Toolkit: Participants will understand the impact of stress on their health. They will understand the mind/body connection and acquire new skills in stress management. Clients will learn how to identify stressful situations and better manage stress in their daily lives. 7.) Developing Your Wellness Plan: Participants will identify one or more wellness goals to add to their agency treatment plan and will develop an over-all Wellness Plan (me now/ me as I want to be). 8.) Nutrition and Diet for the Mind and Body: This class and the following will be taught by a registered dietician. It will cover daily food group needs and how to improve eating patterns. A work sheet will be distributed and recommendations will be made for each participant. 9.) Nutrition, Diet andWhat About Exercise? Participants will understand the health benefits of exercise and will understand the relationship between choice of food, caloric intake, and portion size. 10.) Celebrating Your Commitment to Health and Recovery: Consumers will formally share their Wellness Goals/Plan with the group and support person/friend they have brought to join them. This supportive friend will understand their own role in supporting the clients health, and recovery. There will be a small party with fruit/veggies to celebrate completion of the wellness curriculum.