Cancer Survivorship Psychosocial Support Training

Dear Healthcare Leaders,

Wellness House is excited to announce that with support from IDPH, we are working with healthcare leaders in the state of Illinois to offer a Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Psychosocial Support training. The objective of this training is to provide organizations (clinical or community-based) in rural or underserved areas with the skills needed to implement organizational policy, system, and/or environmental changes to increase access to psychosocial support programs. This is a free, virtual CE training program that aims to enhance psychosocial survivorship skills for healthcare leaders who care for individuals with cancer post treatment as well as caregivers and loved ones. Up to 3.5 CE credits can be earned for those who attend all sessions. This training will involve pre- and post-training surveys.

This program is designed to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors, express and manage disease-related emotions, increase social support, enhance relationships with family and physicians, and improve symptom control.

This training is ideal for IL healthcare leaders who:
1. are in multidisciplined professions such as social work, psychologist, community health workers, nurses, etc.
2. are from underrepresented groups.
3. work with individuals impacted by cancer from diverse backgrounds residing in rural or underserved areas.
4. have decision-making ability or the support of those in these roles.
5. intend to implement this cancer survivorship psychosocial support program within their organization near completion of this training.
6. have access to a computer and Zoom software.

Training Curriculum:
Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Psychosocial Support Training:
(2 half-day sessions)
Date: December 5th and 6th, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (both days)
Location: Zoom

Training Program Goals:
1. Learn how to apply a Policy, Systems, Environmental changes (PSE) framework to a psychosocial survivorship training program
2. Develop skills to assist survivors in identifying their own survivorship needs/concerns and setting goals.
3. Learn how to educate survivors about the role of self-care during survivorship, including exercise, nutrition, support and stress management.
4. Learn a strategy in creating a personalized Survivorship Action Plan for survivors.
5. Learn mechanisms to decrease survivors’ post-treatment distress.

Multidisciplined Cancer Care Learning Community Sessions:
Dates: 2^nd Friday of each month, 9:00 – 10:00 am
Participants will receive a complementary invitation to attend Wellness House Professional PERK, a cancer care education series for healthcare professionals.
CE credits are available.

To register or learn more about the Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Psychosocial Support training, please contact Maigenete Mengesha, PhD, Director of Cancer Health Equity Initiatives by email mmengesha@wellnesshouse.org or call 630-654-5111.

Thank you for your interest in participating in the Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Psychosocial Support Training. This training date is now at capacity however we are preparing to offer round 2 of this training. We ask that you complete the training registration information and once the training date has been set, we will email you with an update and hope that you will be available to participate in the training at that time. If you have any follow up questions, please do not hesitate to email me, Maigenete Mengesha, at mmengesha@wellnesshouse.org. Thank you again for expressing an interest to participate in this training opportunity. We will be in touch soon.   Maigenete Mengesha PhD (she/her/hers)Director of Cancer Health Equity Initiatives

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