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Your employees are your champions. The ones who give your company heart. Offer paid leave programs and benefits to those who need it most.

The Sanford Center for Aging would like to invite anyone living with chronic pain and/or their care partners to participate with us in a chronic pain workshop developed by Stanford University.

Chronic Pain Self-Management is a FREE six-part weekly workshop designed to help you focus on your wellbeing, quality of life, appropriate use of meds, decision-making and problem-solving.

Educating Nevada's Teens on the Dangers of Vaping and E-Cigarettes

Download materials and resources compiled from this campaign and CDC guidelines. For cessation tools, please refer to My Life My Quit, Nevada's Teen Cessation program. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to NTPC Vice President, Taylor Allison, Partnership Douglas County. 

Download videos compiled from the Behind The Haze and Let's Talk Vaping campaign. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to NTPC Vice President, Taylor Allison, Partnership Douglas County. 

Are you taking care of an adult relative, partner, friend or parent with cancer? Powerful Tools for Caregivers gives you the skills to take care of yourself while caring for someone else. By taking care of your own health and well-being, you become a better caregiver. We hope you walk away feeling refreshed and more confident in your role. Six class sessions held once a week are led by experienced class leaders. Class participants are given The Caregiver Helpbook to accompany the class and provide additional caregiver resources.

I am a Community Health Sciences student at the University of Nevada, Reno, set to graduate in spring of 2021. This semester I have had the privilege of interning with Smoke Free Truckee Meadows, which is a local initiative of the Nevada Tobacco Prevention Coalition.

Gentlemen, let’s have a talk. Ladies, you can listen in too since we’re all in this together, really.

November is National Healthy Skin Month. This awareness effort stresses how to check your skin periodically to detect signs of skin cancer among other things. But let’s go a little deeper, shall we?

Do you need support? These national resources are here to help you... whether you live in Nevada or beyond. 

IMMEDIATE SUPPORT

If you're ever worried that someone's life is in immediate danger, call 911 or go directly to emergency services.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Make Yourself Available

Men are taught to hide their feelings as a sign of strength and masculinity. But when it comes to loving and being loved, that belief is a sure fire guarantee of isolation, loneliness, and depression. Show up, because only what you show is available to be loved.

Honesty is Your Trump Card

Love can be trusted only when you know you are being loved for who you really are for your excellence and shortcomings, your toughness and tenderness all of you. Honestly letting your