5006.0: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 - Board 5

Abstract #9040

Development and execution of a community-based educational outreach program to expand access to Massage and Reiki services for diverse populations

Cynthia Ann Piltch, PhD, MPH, LMT1, Dorett Hope, EdD, MS2, and Katherine McDonough, RN1. (1) Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service (CCHERS), Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, 398 CP, Boston, MA 02115, 617-373-5588, c.piltch@nunet.neu.edu, (2) Bouve College of Health Sciences, College of Nursing, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, 113 Mugar, Boston, MA 02115, 617-373-3827, dhope@lynx.dac.neu.edu

The authors will describe a strategy used by a community-academic partnership to provide education and outreach clinics on Massage and Reiki to three population groups with little or no access to complementary healing modalities (i.e. people with chronic mental illness, low-income clients at urban community health centers, and undergraduate students at a large urban university). More specifically, the authors will provide information on the approach that the Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service (CCHERS)utilized to develop and pilot test an educational (and potential research) outreach strategy with members of its partnership (comprised of twelve community health centers, two universities, and several other health organizations in Boston, Massachusetts) and other relevant entities (e.g. the Boston Chapter of the Manic-Depressive Depressive Association). CCHERS has undertaken this effort, in part, to lay the groundwork for community-based research to access the potential palliative and health promotional value of Massage and/or Reiki for populations currently without structural access to such modalities.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Faculty will describe and discuss the planning process for developing a community-based educational outreach program on Massage and Reiki for three groups without structural access to these modalities
  2. At the end of this presentation, the participants will be able to:

Keywords: Alternative Medicine/Therapies, Community Outreach

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service (CCHERS), Northeastern University
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Relationship: Employment

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