"Operation: Health Improvement" webinar scheduled for Friday, Jan. 31

The new year is upon us and with it comes many resolutions or promises to ourselves to “do better.” Often those promises are related to our habits and health. If only it were as easy to do as it is to say! Join Colorado State University Extension on Friday, Jan. 31 at noon for a webinar presentation by Karla Saffer to gain some insight and tools to help make doing better a more successful reality.

Karla Saffer, RN, CDCES, NBC-HWC, is a native of Colorado and has lived in Yuma County since 1998. Saffer currently coordinates the diabetes education and lifestyle medicine programs at the Wray Hospital and Clinic. These programs address whole-person health with special emphasis on behavior change to mitigate, manage and/or prevent chronic diseases. Saffer’s approach is to blend tools of traditional medicine, lifestyle medicine and positive psychology, along with leveraging individual’s habits of living, to achieve and sustain improved health. This in turn helps people reach a higher level of well-being, particularly when health behavior change is hard.

Saffer’s webinar presentation will provide evidence-based research to help people approach health improvement in a potentially different way for lasting, positive health behavior change. She will also introduce tools that create motivation and increase power to change through visioning, goal setting, accountability and self-discovery that lead to “best self.”

The “Operation: Health Improvement” webinar is free but registration is requested by contacting your local host site listed below for in-person participation or you may attend virtually from your location by registering at http://diabeteswebinarjan2025.eventbrite.com.

Webinar host sites include: Kit Carson County, CSU Extension, (719) 346-5571; Logan County, CSU Extension, (970) 522-3200; Morgan County, CSU Extension, (970) 542-3540; Phillips County, CSU Extension, (970) 854-3616, Pueblo County, CSU Extension, (719) 583-6566; Wray Community District Hospital, (970) 332-2352; or Yuma Public Library, (970) 848-2368.

Colorado State University Extension is a local university community connection for research-based information about natural resource management; living well through raising kids, eating right and spending smart; gardening and commercial horticulture; the latest agricultural production technologies and community development. Extension 4-H and youth development programs reach more than 90,000 young people annually, over half in urban communities.

Colorado State University Extension is an equal opportunity provider. Colorado State University does not discriminate on the basis of disability and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. CSU’s Office of Engagement and Extension ensures meaningful access and equal opportunities to participate to individuals whose first language is not English.