Healthy Living – Health Promotion

In Manitoba, four of every 10 people are living with a chronic disease.

Chronic diseases last for a long time. They generally can’t be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication and they don’t just disappear. Common chronic diseases are diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and arthritis.

Chronic disease is the leading cause of death and disability in Canada. It cuts people’s lives short and it introduces disabilities that reduce people’s quality of life.

Chronic disease also demands the lion’s share of health-care expenditures. Of all the money spent on addressing illness, chronic disease requires the greatest proportion of expenditure.

Research has proven the link between healthy lifestyles and healthier bodies. The education programs that we offer are geared towards preventing chronic disease before it happens and helping those who are living with chronic disease make choices that can help to slow or prevent the progression of disease. We offer something for everyone! Please see our schedule of classes and events below and join us. 

• Wellness Connection E-Newsletter
• Schedule of Classes & Events
• Healthy Eating
• Healthy Baby & Child
• Get Better Together
• Tobacco Reduction
• Mental Wellbeing

Wellness Connection E-Newsletter

Schedule of Classes & Events

Healthy Eating

Craving Change

A how-to workshop for changing relationships with food. Change your thinking, change your eating.

Are you craving change in your eating habits?  Do you want to know more about why you eat the way that you do? Then this FREE program is the class for you!

• Wednesdays, January 29th to March 5th from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm online via MS Teams

To register please email [email protected] or call Toll Free 1-877-979-9355

Empowered Eating

A Develop a healthier relationship with food.

• Explore your current relationship with food.
• Explore feelings, beliefs, and behaviours around food.

Explore new tools, ideas, and ways of thinking

• Tuesdays, January 14th to February 4th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm online via MS Teams

To register please email [email protected] or call Toll Free 1-877-979-9355

Healthy Baby & Child

Feeding Your Baby – Intro to Solids

Do you have questions about feeding your growing baby? A Registered Dietitian will answer your questions about introducing solids to your baby. Online virtual sessions via Microsoft Teams.

Email [email protected] to register.

• Thursday November 28, 2024 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday January 30, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday March 27, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday May 29, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday September 25, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday November 27, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Feeding Littles – How to Have Pleasant Mealtimes

Do you worry about what your children eat? Or don’t eat? Do you have questions about feeding your children or how to get them to eat new (or old) foods? Or even eat at all? If yes, please join a Registered Dietitian for a virtual class with tips on how to prevent meal time battles and what to do if they occur. Online virtual sessions via Microsoft Teams. Email [email protected] to register.

• Thursday December 19, 2024 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday February 27, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday April 24, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday June 19, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday October 30, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am
• Thursday December 11, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Our Time Healthy Baby Drop-In

Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority’s Our Time Healthy Baby Program is available for all pregnant individuals and parents with infants up to one year of age. Healthy Baby Community Programs help pregnant individuals and new parents connect with other parents, families and health professionals.

Our Time Healthy Baby Program can offer:

• group sessions
• milk coupons
• recipe/meal bags
• information, support and resources on prenatal and postnatal nutrition & health, breastfeeding, parenting tips and lifestyle choices

For free registration please contact:

East side Interlake- Robin, 204-345-0290 [email protected]

West side Interlake –Denise, 204-785-7708 or email [email protected] Or call your local Public Health Nurse for more information, Community Health Office locations

Get Better Together

Get Better Together

Group Program – Individuals living with chronic health conditions learn to deal with common issues they face and to motivate each other with solutions.

To get on the mailing list to be notified of future sessions please email [email protected] or call toll free 1-877-979-WELL (9355)

Tobacco Reduction

Commit to Quit

Join this virtual 5-class group program to help you reduce or stop your tobacco or nicotine use. No cost. Learn about:

• your triggers
• setting realistic goals
• behaviours that work
• strategies, tips, and tricks
• how to quit medications might work for you

Winter sessions available, afternoons or evenings, online with MS Teams with a phone in option. Register by Jan. 8th.

Afternoons: Wednesdays, Jan. 15 to Feb. 12, 2025 from 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

or

Evenings: Wednesdays, Jan. 25 to Feb. 12, 2025 from 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm.

Email [email protected] or call Toll Free 1-877-979-WELL (9355

Mental Wellbeing

Practical Relaxation Series

Explore simple relaxation techniques and get started on managing stress and improving your health and overall well-being today!

• INTRO TO STRESS – This hands-on session reviews causes of stress, relaxation response, and ways to manage stress. Focus: Deep breathing & guided imagery. 

• INTRO TO MINDFULNESS – This session introduces mindfulness, which helps reduce stress by focusing awareness on the present moment.
• INTRO TO REFRAMING OUR THOUGHTS – Our thoughts can influence our feelings and actions. Improve your mood by thinking in a flexible and more balanced way!
• PRACTICING GRATITUDE – Practicing an “attitude of gratitude” can have health benefits such as less anxiety, better sleep and more happiness! Learn how to get started with as little as 5 minutes a day!

Sign up for one or more sessions! Each session is about one hour.

• Mondays January 13th to February 3rd from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm at the Community Health Office Boardroom, 1st Floor – 237 Manitoba Avenue, Selkirk.

Email [email protected] or call Toll Free 1-877-979-9355 to register.

Contact us at [email protected] or call Toll Free 1-877-979-WELL(9355)