Hello all. Happy holiday season! I hope everyone is doing well. The fall colors are fading, and scary thought, winter is fast approaching. May all of us have a healthy and happy holiday!
A few issues to discuss:
First and foremost — Your Board of Directors needs your help!!! We’ve sent a previous message to request help, but have had only one response! I cannot state this plainly enough: if you want WPADE to continue (and we hope you do), you must volunteer to serve. It IS your turn! We must have a President-Elect and a Vice President. Linda Fevrier needs help with program planning. It takes a great deal of time and effort for one or two people to pull together a program, but with more help from you, those one or two program committee members will no longer feel the brunt of the work. Please, please, consider volunteering for a position on the board. We are in danger of folding!
Second, on a lighter note, we are working on our new spring program. It will be held in the beginning of April in 2005 and is titled: Choices and Changes: Clinician Influence and Patient Action in Diabetes Self Management Training. The Choices and Changes Workshop will address three goals.
Clinical Interviewing and Counseling Skills
1. To provide participants with conceptual models for effective clinician-patient communication and facilitation of patient behavior change.
2. To provide participants with opportunities for practice and feedback to improve their own clinical interviewing and behavior change counseling skills with patients.
Engaging in Self Reflective Practice
3. To provide participants with an opportunity to reflect upon their practices as clinicians, teachers, and individuals participating in an educational experience.
Stay tuned for updates on dates, times, and sites.
Third, the board will need help with Bylaw revision. It’s been quite a while since they’ve been revised. To review the bylaws, please refer to About Us and Bylaws on the website.
Finally, if you are aware of any educational program offerings in the area and would like it posted on the website, please email me with the information. Again, please volunteer and join the board. Its a few hours a month commitment with every other month board meetings. We will await your response. You can email me at debra.kulbacki@animascorp.com. Thanks again.
