Women be Healthy

Frequently asked questions and answers about Women be Healthy:

Q. What is the cost of the curriculum?
A. The facilitators manual is $10.00.

Q. Who should teach the curriculum?
A. A potential teacher should be female and enjoy working with women with intellectual disability. She must be able to foster a supportive learning environment. It is very important that the teacher be comfortable discussing her own body and health issues.

Q. Is there training available to prepare facilitators to teach the curriculum?
A. Training is available. For more information please contact Pam Dickens, 919-966-0871, pam_dickens@unc.edu.

Q. Who are the targeted participants of the curriculum?
A. Adult women with mild to moderate  intellectual disabilities who possess sufficient receptive and expressive communications skills to comprehend the instructional material.

Q. What is the schedule for the curriculum?
A. The curriculum is divided into 22 weekly classes that last 60 minutes per session.

Sample WBH workshop presentation.(758 KB)

View a sample of the curriculum (330 KB)