About Us

Our program is one of 14 Self-Management Programs across the Province of Ontario. We offer Self-Management training and workshops to participants, caregivers and health care professionals across the Central East Region. View an English map of the Central East Region. View a French map of the Central East Region.

Here in Central East, our program staff include: one Manager, four Coordinators, one Coordinator for Professional Education, and two Administrative Assistants.

To contact the team, please call our toll free line at 1-866-971-5545 or email us.

We have approximately 150-200 volunteers on an ongoing basis that lead workshops and training sessions, all of who have taken and successfully completed all appropriate training and application processes.

Our current program offerings include:

• Self-Management Resource Centre workshops (in our region titled “Living a Healthy Life” workshops in Chronic Pain, Chronic Conditions and Diabetes)
• Graduate refresher sessions
• Getting the Most from your Health Care Appointment, a program developed by the South West Self-Management Program
• Powerful Tools for Caregivers
• Choices and Changes: Motivating Healthy Behaviours
• Brief Action Planning
• The Empathy Effect:  Countering Bias to Improve Health Outcomes
• Treating Patients with C.A.R.E.
• Health Literacy
• Foundations of Motivational Interviewing
• Mentorship sessions including Motivational Interviewing workshop series and webinars
• Better Choices, Better Health®, an online Chronic Disease Self-Management Program for participants across Ontario. Access the online program or register now,