Patient Advocacy & Education Programs
During 2004, ORA supported arthritis education in Central Oregon by funding a community education program hosted by the Occupational Therapy Providers at CascadeHand Therapy, Inc. The four-session weekly series was open to any resident of Deschutes County by first-come, first-serve registration. The OTs provided information to improve the ways patients, and their family, friends, and caretakers managed living with rheumatic disease. Topics included:
- Living with RA
- Living with OA
- Travel tips for people with arthritis
- Tips for making life with arthritis easier
- Working [on-the-job] with arthritis
- Adaptive gardening
- Managing your fatigue
- Managing your activities
Classes were held at the Bend Senior Center.
Have An Idea of Your Own?
Do you have an arthritis patient advocacy or education idea or program that needs funding? Submit your proposal including the following information, and ORA may be able to help:
- Requesting entity (person or organization, may be the contact person for this event)
- Requestors name, address, phone, and e-mail address
- Program Title
- Program Date(s)
- Program Location
- Provider (person or organization to coduct the program)
- Provider address, phone, and e-mail address
- Objective
- Target Audience
- Program Description
- Evaluation standards
- Proposed budget of costs
- Amount requested
Mail signed requests to the ORA office on official letterhead for consideration. ORA responds to all requests.