Public Calendar of Events

Craving Change

Craving Change™ is a FREE "how-to" workshop series focusing on helping you change your relationship with food. It will help you understand why you eat the way you do, and comfort yourself with food. It aims to help you change your thinking and change your eating.

For more information or to register, click here or call 1-866-337-3318.

Better Sleep

The Better Sleep workshop promotes better and a more restful sleep. During this FREE, 5 week group session you will learn strategies to help relax your mind and body, to decrease insomnia, and to fall asleep or back to sleep easily.

For more information or to register, click here or call 1-866-337-3318.

Dial It Down- Relaxation and Stress Management

During this FREE, 5 week program you will get the opportunity to practice and develop strong skills in releasing body tension, calming and focusing the mind. Techniques are especially helpful in the self-regulation of headaches, muscle tension, insomnia, pain, anxiety, and panic attacks.

For more information or to register, click here or call 1-866-337-3318.

Diabetes Fit

This FREE exercise program is for adults at risk of, or  diagnosed with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. It is a12-week program with 2 sessions per week, led by YMCA certified exercise professionals. Sessions include education and exercise designed to help you get started with exercise and healthy eating.

For more information or to register for programs, call 519-743-5201 x 2113

Diabetes Self-Management Workshop

This is a FREE 6-week workshop that was developed to support those living with Type 2 Diabetes, and their families, to manage their diabetes and includes goal setting to help participants start and maintain lifestyle changes.

For more information or to register, click here or call 1-866-337-3318

Small Steps for Big Changes

Small Steps for Big Changes is an evidenced-based FREE counselling program designed to help make lasting diet and exercise changes to lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.  6 sessions of 1-on-1 exercise and dietary change counselling with a trained coach over 4 weeks.  Accountability check-ins with your coach at 12 and 24-months following completion of the program. 

Click here for the program flyer

Click here for more information or call : 519-743-5201 ext. 2113

TrialNet Screening Event 

Family members of people with type 1 diabetes (parents, siblings, children) ages 2-45, and other relatives (grandchildren, nieces/nephews, cousins) ages 2-20 can be screened for diabetes-related autoantibodies. Knowing if you have diabetes-related autoantibodies can help to determine risk level of relatives developing type 1 diabetes.

For those that test positive for the markers, TrialNet offers monitoring trials and will soon offer prevention trials where they will trial treatment to delay or prevent the onset of type 1 diabetes in people who are at high risk of developing it.

Grand River Hospital

Adult Diabetes Education Centre - 5th Floor - Kaufman Building 40 Green Street, Kitchener

4 - 8 pm