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A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falling

Volunteer Lay Leader Model Master Trainer Course

In collaboration with MaineHealth’s Partnership for Healthy Aging (PFHA), the ODH Injury Prevention Program (IPP) is seeking partners throughout Ohio to become Master Trainer sites for A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns about Falling (MOB) Volunteer Lay Leader Model.  With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the IPP is sponsoring a MOB Master Trainer Course in Columbus (Exact location TBD) on July 22-23, 2008.   Our goals are to increase the number of Master Trainers in Ohio and to improve geographic accessibility of the course among older adults in Ohio.

 

Those interested must complete an application, including the Master Trainer Site Commitment Form and the Application Acknowledgement Form for the Area Agencies on Aging, in addition to a Licensing Agreement with the Partnership for Healthy Aging. 

 

All parts of the completed application must be delivered (mailed or faxed) at the same time to the Ohio Department of Health before 4:00 PM on June 9, 2008.  


The MOB Volunteer Lay Leader Model is an Administration on Aging Evidence-based Healthy Aging Program developed by the PFHA.  A Master Trainer is responsible for teaching the A Matter of Balance curriculum to “volunteer coaches” and providing them with guidance and support as they lead MOB classes.  To address questions you may have about MOB and to assist you in completing the enclosed application, the following documents have been included: