Session 1: Fruits and vegetables
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• Barriers to eating fruits and vegetables
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• Individual goal: tracking eating at least five servings each day or substituting for a sugary beverage each day
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• Serving size quiz
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• Team goal: pedometer challenge (team divided into two squads)
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• Nutrition jeopardy
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Session 2: Back to healthy postures
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• Healthy spine (ship mast analogy)
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• Individual goal: track neural spine position several times a day or attend relevant Oregon Home Care Commission (OHCC) class
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• Practice with partner finding neutral spine
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• Team goal: all do neutral spine task tracking
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• Practice lifting postures
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• Tools to avoid back strain
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Session 3: Functional fitness
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• Core strengthen
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• Individual goal: pair with teammate to exercise or core exercises everywhere tracking
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• Sitting posture
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• Team goal: repeat pedometer challenge
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• Practice do anywhere core exercises
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• ABLE (abdomen, back and leg exercises) stickers
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• Benefits of exercise quiz
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Session 4: Take a load off with tools
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• Traps that lead to injuries
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• Individual goal: watch video or attend OHCC class on tools
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• Common injuries and how they occur
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• Team goal: all assess hazards in consumer-employer’s home
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• Low tech tool show-and-tell and practice
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• On tools
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Session 5: Communicate for hazard correction
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• Role play communicating with consumer-employer
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• Individual goal: interview consume-employer about what makes good and bad days or use the PRAISE communication strategy with consumer-employer
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• Learn PRAISE (Plan, Respect, Ask open-ended questions, I statements, Simply listen, Express understanding) mnemonic
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• Team goal: all talk with consumer-employer about hazard
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• Plan interaction
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• Role play interaction
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Session 6: Mental health
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• Practice total body relaxation
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• Individual goal: choose relaxation or three blessing activity
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• Three blessing activities
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• Team goal: work on something from previous sessions
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• Review of session topics and progress on goals
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