Better Choices, Better Health® South Dakota (BCBH-SD) offers chronic disease self-management education workshops to help adults living with ongoing physical and/or mental health conditions. The workshops also help caregivers understand how healthier choices can improve quality of life, boost self-confidence, and inspire positive lifestyle changes. Millions of adults live with chronic health conditions. BCBH-SD workshops teach skills and tools to use that can help you manage symptoms, improve the quality of day-to-day living, and reduce healthcare costs.
Workshops are offered in six weekly sessions and are FREE to attend.
People can participate in multiple ways:
- Distance learning (reliable internet required)
- In-person in your local community
- Mailed Toolkit with Weekly Leader Calls
Languages available:
- English (all workshops): Call 1-888-484-3800 to register.
- NEW! Spanish (Chronic Disease Self-Management Program): Call 1-605-681-6878 to register.
Managing Chronic Conditions
- Building Better Caregivers workshops are designed for caregivers of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s, brain injury, and other conditions that affect memory, and those who can no longer live at home independently.
- Cancer: Thriving & Surviving (CTS) workshops are for adults living with a cancer diagnosis, whether newly diagnosed or in recovery or remission, and caregivers.
- Chronic conditions workshops are designed to help adults and caregivers manage their health and improve their quality of life.
- Chronic pain workshops are designed for adults living with everyday pain that impacts daily living and caregivers.
- Diabetes workshops are for adults living with pre-diabetes, type-2 diabetes, those with a family history of diabetes, and caregivers.
- Worksite chronic condition workshops are employer-supported and designed for employees to learn techniques to deal with chronic conditions. The worksite workshop is scheduled for two 60-minute sessions twice a week for six weeks.
- Los talleres de TOMANDO CONTROL de su SALUD están diseñados para ayudar a adultos y cuidadores a manejar su salud y mejorar su calidad de vida
Interested?
If you are interested in our workshops and would like to be notified when one is scheduled in your area, complete the form below.
- Visit the Good and Healthy South Dakota website.
- Call us at 1-888-484-3800
- Contactar Para Aprender Más Deserée Corrales, SDSU Extension BCBH Bilingual Community Educator
- Join our online community and view current events on our Facebook page.
"As a caregiver, I took the Better Choices, Better Health Workshop Cancer: Thriving and Surviving to better understand the cancer journey my loved one was going through. What I didn't realize was how much this program also impacted my personal health and wellbeing."
About BCBH
Chronic disease affects quality of life, has a huge economic impact, and increases the need for healthcare services. BCBH SD is a community-led evidence-based program modeled after Stanford University’s chronic disease self-management program.
Chronic disease self management education programs were developed and tested in a randomized, controlled trial by the Patient Education Research Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine. All components of the workshops have been medically approved. Stanford received a government research grant to develop community-based self-management education programs that assist people with chronic illnesses. Research was completed in 1996. For a more in-depth history of these programs, visit the Self Management Resource Center.
