Nonprofit roundup: Courses on managing diabetes begin March 28 in Missoula – The Missoulian

The Resource Center at Missoula Aging Services (MAS) is partnering with the MSU Extension Office and others to offer a six-week course for older adults with diabetes or pre-diabetes. The Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (DEEP) is available free to Medicare participants and their caregivers.

Classes will help people with diabetes learn how to take charge of their health and get control of the disease. While they are designed for older adults with Medicare, anyone with diabetes or pre-diabetes is welcome to attend. Courses will be held Tuesdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m., beginning Tuesday, March 28, and continuing through May 2, at the Missoula County Extension Office, 2825 Santa Fe Court.

Please call MAS at 406-728-7682 for more information or to register, or go to deepclasses.eventbrite.com to register online. Additional partners include Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC), and the Montana Geriatric Education Center.

The YWCA Missoula invites you to LUNAFEST, a local event hosted by the GUTS! (Girls using their strengths) Program. GUTS! partners with LUNAFEST, an exciting national film festival featuring short films by, for and about women, to highlight the capacity, strength and beauty of women in film and young women of Missoula. This event will raise funds for our Summer Outdoor Adventure Trips and a smaller percentage for the Breast Cancer Fund. LUNAFEST will be held on Wednesday, April 19, at the Wilma Theater in downtown Missoula. Doors open for our silent auction at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 day of show.

Child Care Resources training: Spring Conference is set for Saturday, April 1. How do we create rich environments that meet early childhood standards and allow children and their teachers to flourish?

As an active participant, sharing photos and discussing and brainstorming environmental successes and challenges in your child care program. Youll also create a design for one learning center that you can immediately begin to create in your program.

This conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April, 1. This training is $25, and is worth six training hours.

Application workshops for anyone interested in applying to build a home in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Missoula will be held Sunday, April 2, at 2 p.m. and Wednesday, April 5, at 7 p.m.

Workshops will be held in the conference room at the YWCA located at 1130 West Broadway.

No child care will be available at either meeting.

Applications will be available at the meetings. Access to our applications on our website or to pick up at our office will be available on Tuesday, April 4. Completed applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, April 21.

Call 406-549-8210 for more information.

To help older adultswho want to get better control of their diabetes, Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Montana, Ag Worker Health & Services and the Montana Geriatric Education Center are partnering together to offer a series of six, free diabetes classes. These classes provide fun, informative and interactive ways to help people with diabetes or pre-diabetes (high blood sugar)

The classes support, not replace, professional diabetes self-management education. The classes are designed for people age 65 and older. Ag Worker Health & Services will make future announcements about any classes or events for those younger than 65.

The series kicks off Monday, April 17, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., at Ag Worker Health and Services at 9801 Valley Grove Drive #D, which is about a half mile north of Lolo on Highway 93. Classes will then meet every Monday through May 22. Anyone interested in attending theses classes can register by calling 406-273-4633.

Humanities Montana awarded a $900 grant to The Montana Racial Equity Project to support the Native American Race Relations and Healing Symposium. The day-long event will feature two panel discussions lead by authors, historians, language preservationists, and experts including John Robinson and Sterling HolyWhiteMountain. The first panel will focus on tribal sovereignty and the second will explore current issues facing the Native American population. The event will take place on Saturday, April 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Native American Studies Building at the University of Montana.

Humanities Montana awarded a $1,000 grant to the Wedsworth Memorial Library to fund a monthly book discussion. Dr. Penny Hughes-Briant will host eight discussions from August 2017 to May 2018. All events will be held at the Wedsworth Memorial Library in Cascade.

Humanities Montana awarded a $1,000 grant to Columbus High School to fund the Yellowstone National Park Inquiry Project. Students will research and build projects on the impacts that visitors have on Yellowstone National Parks animals, ecosystem, environment, and cultural values.

Humanities Montana is the states independent, nonprofit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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