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Upcoming Hampton Roads Events

Hampton Roads Programs & Services

Upcoming Programs:
 

Employment Teleconference Series (Thursdays from 7-8 pm):

• January 12: A 21st Century Approach to Job Searching: Webinar
• January 26: Get Informed: Legal Protections in the Workplace
• February 9: Managing Challenging Resumes
• February 23: Reinvent Yourself
• March 8: Home-Based Employment: What Employers Want
• March 22: Don't Do It Alone: Employment Resources

Virtual Legislative Action Day

Monday, January 30, 2012

Movement Ambassador Trainings

(One on Peninsula and one on Southside)

Dates, times, and location to be announced

Recordings:

Carepartner Teleconference: Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others

Employment Teleconference Series

• How to Apply for Jobs in the Federal Government: Webinar
• Social Security Disability Eligibility and Application Process
• Social Security Disability and Returning to Work
• Part-Time Jobs with Flexibility
• Practical tips for Managing Challenging MS Symptoms on the Job
• Wellness and Work

LINKS Teleconference Series

• Parenting with MS--Making a Place for MS and Keeping MS in its Place!
• Recreation with Changing Needs and MS and MS
• Vision and MS
• Driving with MS--How to Stay Behind the Wheel
• Alphabet Soup--Disability Programs and What They Mean for You
• Making the Most of Your 15 Minutes with Your Neurologist
• MS Research Update

Online Classes: 

To begin learning, you will first need to create an account on the online system https://gm1.geolearning.com/geonext/nmss/login.geo   by selecting “Request a new account.”

<<Returning users can access the classes directly by logging in at this same address.>>
 

Adapting: Financial Planning for a Life with MS...Together (3 hours)

A large part of navigating MS is managing your money and planning wisely for your future. It is never too early to begin evaluating your income, assets, debts, benefits, and other resources. This course provides information and strategies to help you plan wisely for the future and meet the financial challenges that often accompany life with MS.

Career Decisions: Relationship Matters (4 hours)

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society developed this course to give you strategies to apply when you make career decisions. Living with MS is about transition, but with knowledge, you can find a path where you can continue to demonstrate your experience, talent, and passion.

Intimacy: Enriching Your Relationship (4 hours)

Intimacy and sexuality are sensitive issues for most people, but when you or someone you love has MS, there may be even more challenges. It helps to know that there are ways you can manage problems and improve communication and you can do that through the interactive scenarios and worksheets included throughout the course.

My Life, My MS, My Decisions

My Life, My MS, My Decisions is a four module series that provides learners with the skills and resources to enhance their decision-making abilities on topics important to their health care.

• Module 1: Teaming Up with Your Healthcare Providers (2 hours)

This module focuses on communicating and working with your healthcare team. A good relationship with your healthcare team is the basis for all of the medical decisions you will have to make.

• Module 2: Navigating the Medication Maze (4 hours)

In this course, you will learn about some of the available medications and why doctors choose to prescribe them. You will also get a chance to practice analyzing the risks/adverse effects and benefits of medications, accounting for things such as medication side effects and costs. You will have the opportunity to use a decision map to help you objectively review information and reach some conclusions about which medications might be best for you.

• Module 3: Considering Clinical Trials (3 hours)

Many people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis are interested in participating in a clinical trial for a variety of reasons. However, before making such a big decision, it is important to be familiar with how clinical trials work, how people with MS are selected for participation, and what to expect if accepted into a clinical trial.

• Module 4: Achieving Optimal Wellness (3 hours)

As the last class in the My Life, My MS, My Decisions series, this module presents wellness from a holistic point of view, not just exercise and diet. Success in achieving a goal will help you go on to achieve others, taking you beyond the limitations MS may try to impose and empowering you to achieve balance in all areas of your life—physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and social.

Please contact us at 757-490-9627 or info@fightms.com if you have any questions or need assistance.

Self-Guided Coached Programs:

Career Crossroads: Employment and MS

Career Crossroads: Employment and MS was designed by employment and MS experts to help individuals living with MS remain in the workforce. Topics covered over the course of the program include: Working with MS, The Law's on Your Side, My Little Secret, Maximize Your Potential, You're Not Alone, Taking Charge.

My Content

My Content is an easy way to create your own list of pages on the National Multiple Sclerosis Society website. Use it to save the information that is most important to you or for information you'd like to find later.

To start saving pages, create a profile and log in. Then, click the "Save" button on every page you'd like to save.