OASIS recruiting volunteer peer leaders

OASIS, an education group sponsored by SUNY Upstate Medical University, is seeking community volunteers to lead an interactive chronic disease self-management program designed to help patients enhance their regular treatments and live a healthier life.

The Chronic Disease Self Management Program, developed by Stanford University, is a six-week program designed to offer additional support to chronic disease patients. The program offers disease-specific education on topics such as management of asthma symptoms, cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes instruction and more.

Master Trainers will offer training to recruited peer leaders from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 29, 30, 31 and Sept. 1 at OASIS, 6333 State Route 298, East Syracuse. You must attend all four days to become a certified peer leader. All training supplies and materials will be provided.

Once trained, the peer leaders will work in pairs to lead workshops at various sites in Onondaga County. Each workshop runs for six weeks (one day a week for 2½ hours a day).

Students, health professionals and members of the wider Syracuse community are all encouraged to apply.

For more information or to sign up for the training to become a peer leader, contact Sally Terek at [email protected] or call 464-1746.