HEALTH & WELLNESS
VERMONT GRANGERS WORKING IN OUR COMMUNITIES
Director: Alice Daley, 22 Carmichael St., Apt 306 Essex Junction, VT 05452
Tel: 802-999-7025; Email: [email protected]
The goal for this program is to work with the other departments in the Grange and with people in our communities to educate them about health issues.
Feeding the hungry is a Grange project to collect food for your local Food Shelf. See Community Service “Empty Plate” project.
Duties of Subordinate/Community Health & Wellness Chair
Mental Health – Website: Ruralminds.org
Growing Hope Together – The National Grange and Rural Minds Collaborate to Help Prevent Suicide in Rural America. National Grange and Rural Minds have joined forces and offer free Webinar to all. Go to the National Grange or Rural Minds website for additional information.Monthly ideas for programs
Resources
VERMONT GRANGERS WORKING IN OUR COMMUNITIES
Director: Alice Daley, 22 Carmichael St., Apt 306 Essex Junction, VT 05452
Tel: 802-999-7025; Email: [email protected]
The goal for this program is to work with the other departments in the Grange and with people in our communities to educate them about health issues.
Feeding the hungry is a Grange project to collect food for your local Food Shelf. See Community Service “Empty Plate” project.
Duties of Subordinate/Community Health & Wellness Chair
- Work with the Master and Lecturer to present a health program relevant to your Grange.
- Report at every meeting about a Health and Wellness topic.
- Contact another subordinate grange and offer to help - maybe plan a joint meeting.
- Visit another Subordinate Grange in person or via Zoom
- Report at every Pomona meeting about a Health and Wellness topic
- Contact every Subordinate Grange in your Pomona and communicate with them that you are available to help - plan to attend a meeting.
- Attend State Committee Meetings and communicate information to your Subordinate Health Chairperson
- Masks as required by your local community; keep one in the car.
- Take a cooking class using $100 grant-see Education Aid
- Educate about Dementia and other illnesses.
- Suicide Prevention- 802-254-6590/802-273-8255
- Opioid education
- Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative (RALI) medication disposal bags
- Local medicine disposal sites
- Discuss vaccines with your primary care provider.
- Covid 19-Get boosted.
- Shingles
- Pneumonia
- TDaP – Importance of parents and grandparents to get Pertussis vaccine.
- Healthy snacks
- Washing hands and use of soap
- Healthy Plate
- Protein, dairy, fruits, veggies
- portion size
- 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day
- Health eating habits
- eat slower
- eat breakfast
- put fork down between bites
- smaller fork/plates
- Move/exercise:
- 5,000 steps/day
- Take the stairs.
- Do not pick the closest parking place to your destination.
- Dehydration, can cause:
- dry skin/chapped lips
- headaches
- increase or decrease blood pressure.
- Time to drink water:
- At bedtime and first thing in the morning
- Add citrus (lemon), kiwi, fruit to water.
- Mental Well-being:
- Check on your neighbor/senior citizen.
- Be a good listener.
- Depression, seek help.
- Suicide Hotline – Dial 988 for Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - Suicide prevention and resources
- Check in with people that live alone.
- Type 2 Diabetes/Hypertension
- Container or Raised Bed Gardening (work with Ag/Environment and/or Family Activities)
Mental Health – Website: Ruralminds.org
Growing Hope Together – The National Grange and Rural Minds Collaborate to Help Prevent Suicide in Rural America. National Grange and Rural Minds have joined forces and offer free Webinar to all. Go to the National Grange or Rural Minds website for additional information.Monthly ideas for programs
- January - Blood donor month; Cervical cancer awareness month; Thyroid cancer month, 1/11 is National Milk Day
- February - National Heart Month (wear Red); Low vision month; Children’s Dental month
- March - MS Awareness; Colorectal Cancer; Deaf History Month, Endometriosis Awareness; Nutrition
- April - Alcohol Awareness; IBS; Autism Awareness; Parkinson’s Awareness, Stress Awareness Month
- May - Stroke Awareness; Arthritis Awareness; CF; Healthy Vision, Dental Care Month
- June - VT Dairy Month; Alzheimer’s Awareness; Cataract Awareness; Scleroderma Awareness; Men’s Health, Pride Month
- July - Healthy Vision; Juvenile Arthritis; Sarcoma Awareness, National Ice Cream Month, World Chocolate Day on 7/5
- August - Psoriasis; Lung Cancer Awareness, Eye Exam Month, Immunization Awareness Month
- September - Blood Cancer; Healthy Aging Month; AFib Awareness; Cholesterol Awareness; Ovarian Cancer; Prostate Cancer
- October - Breast Cancer Month; Down Syndrome Awareness; Mental Illness Month, 10/21 is Apple Day
- November - Diabetes Month; Bladder Health Month; COPD Awareness; Epilepsy Awareness; Pancreatic Cancer; Great American Smoke-Out Nov. 19
- December- Flu Vaccination week 12/6-12; Handwashing Awareness; AIDS day 12/1
Resources
- Contact www.CDC.gov for additional information and health related ideas
- www.UVM.edu/extension
- Ruralminds.org
- CRISIS TEXT LINE: Text VT to 741741 from anywhere in the USA to text with a trained Crisis Counselor.
- VT Health.Org Health Awareness Calendar
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