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For both unpaid and professional caregivers, these workshops provide an in-depth exploration of topics related to dementia. We discuss the warning signs of dementia and then focus on how to start the conversation about dementia with someone you think may have some signs. We also go over the process for diagnosis. 

Presented by educators from ALTCEW 

Niños de 8 años o más y sus familias

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¡Pon a prueba tus habilidades de comunicación al máximo! Trabaja en equipo con tu familia o con un grupo de amigos para resolver rompecabezas, descifrar códigos y escapar antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Este programa se presenta íntegramente en español.

Kids ages 8+ & their families

Registration is required.

Push your communication skills to the max! Collaborate with your family or a team of friends to solve puzzles, break codes, and escape before it’s too late. This program is presented entirely in Spanish. 

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Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging.  

The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?” 

Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art, nature, movement, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression, “culture vitamins” for anxiety,  a fishing club for ADHD, a farm-based day-care for dementia, a phone-buddy program for social isolation, and many more.

As the first book on social prescribing, The Connection Cure empowers you to find, experience, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. The success stories Julia finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better.

Register today to find out how you can use the wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life!

About the Author: Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. The Connection Cure is her first book.

SCLD Online Authors Series

When the pilgrims first landed in America, the only apple trees on the continent were crab apples. After 250 years of planting millions of cider tree seeds, over 15,000 named apple trees existed in North America. Today, there are less than 5,000 named apples readily found. The Lost Apple Project searches for lost apples and is making exciting finds right here in the Palouse. Dave Benscoter and/or Bret Clifton talk about the steps they are taking to bring these apples back to life.