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Living Well Resources

For workshop facilitators and consumers

The Living Well Community

Updates about facilitators and consumers

Now Available:
An Online Version of Living Well

For information,
contact Val Renault,
Phone: 785-864-0575
Email: vrenault@ku.edu

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Living Well with a Disability


A Workshop to Help People Build the Skills
for a Healthy Lifestyle

The healthier we are, the more we're able to do the things we want in life.

This eight-week course is designed for people with disabilities and chronic health conditions. It uses goal setting and problem solving as the framework for creating a healthy lifestyle.

How Living Well Works

The course is offered to consumers through community-based organizations. RTC/IL staff provide free facilitator training to staff of Centers for Independent Living or other organizations. The community organization then conducts the program for its clients.

Living Well Background

The Living Well program is very effective. In research, over 1,000 individuals in 32 states completed the workshop, with these results:

    • 37% decrease in limitation due to secondary conditions
    • A significant decrease in depression levels.
    • A 10% decline in costs for medical service

Click here to read testimonials from Kansas participants.

This program is funded by the Centers for Disease Control. It is offered to Kansans through a collaboration between the RTC/IL and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.


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    Kansas Department of Health and Environment

For more information, contact:
Research and Training Center on Independent Living
The University of Kansas
Dole Human Development Center
1000 Sunnyside Ave., Room 4089
Lawrence, KS 66045-7555
Phone: 785-864-4095
TTY: 785-864-0706
Fax: 785-864-5063
Email: rtcil@ku.edu