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Bring PTC to Your Community

Hi! I'm Judy Rank - support staff for PTC at WIHA. Please look through the information below. If you have ANY questions, please reach out! ptc@wihealthyaging.org

If you're a family caregiver, you understand both the rewards and challenges of caregiving. Powerful Tools for Caregivers can help!

You may not even think of yourself as a caregiver - you're simply helping someone you love. But when the stresses and difficulties that often come with caregiving become overwhelming, it's important to take care of yourself too. That's where Powerful Tools for Caregivers © (PTC) comes in.

In just six weeks, Powerful Tools for Caregivers can help you identify and manage the physical, emotional and financial challenges that family caregiving can present and connects you with other caregivers who are facing some of the same feelings and problems you may be facing.

What is PTC?
Is PTC for Me?
What Will I Learn?
Research
Be a Leader

What is PTC?

Powerful Tools for Caregivers © (PTC) is a 6-week (once a week) educational workshop for people who are taking care of a family member or friend designed to support the family caregiver and improve his or her well-being.

It does not teach hands-on care or focus on disease or other conditions, but rather helps the caregiver cope with the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of being a caregiver. See program brochure.

What is PTC for Parents of Kids with Special Needs?

Powerful Tools for Caregivers: For Parents of Children with Special Needs is adapted from the original PTC program and is designed to support a parent or parents who are caring for a child of any age (minor or adult) who has special health or behavioral needs.

It provides the same caregiver support curriculum while focusing on the unique challenges of parents caring for a child of any age with health or behavior challenges. See program brochure .

Is PTC for me?

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is for friends or family members who are caring for an older person or someone who has a disability or ongoing health problem. Family caregivers should take this course to help them better cope with the challenges of caregiving and get support and resources to make the caregiving journey easier.

Caregivers who take PTC experience:

Greater self-efficacy (confidence in one’s ability to accomplish something a self-identified goal)
Better emotional well-being
Increased use of self-care behaviors
Increased awareness and use of community resources

What Will I Learn?

Topics include:

Week 1: Taking care of YOU

Week 2: Reducing Personal Stress

Week 3: Communicating Feelings, Needs, and Concerns

Week 4: Communicating Effectively with Others

Week 5: Learning from our Emotions

Week 6: Mastering Caregiving Decisions

Research

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an evidence-based program - that is, it has been researched and proven to provide specific benefits.

> Learn more about the program and the research behind it.

Becoming a PTC Leader

We're always looking for enthusiastic people to be program Leaders. Learn more about what it takes to become a Leader for the Powerful Tool for Caregivers program and see the upcoming Leader Training schedule.

"I never imagined that caregiving could be such a challenge, but when I started helping my mom, things got real.

Thank goodness for Powerful Tools for Caregivers! I learned to cope with my new role and never feel alone with all the support the group provides me."

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If you're a family caregiver, you understand both the rewards and challenges of caregiving. Powerful Tools for Caregivers can help!

You may not even think of yourself as a caregiver - you're simply helping someone you love. But when the stresses and difficulties that often come with caregiving become overwhelming, it's important to take care of yourself too. That's where Powerful Tools for Caregivers © (PTC) comes in.

In just six weeks, Powerful Tools for Caregivers can help you identify and manage the physical, emotional and financial challenges that family caregiving can present and connects you with other caregivers who are facing some of the same feelings and problems you may be facing.

What is PTC?

Powerful Tools for Caregivers © (PTC) is a 6-week (once a week) educational workshop for people who are taking care of a family member or friend designed to support the family caregiver and improve his or her well-being.

It does not teach hands-on care or focus on disease or other conditions, but rather helps the caregiver cope with the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of being a caregiver. See program brochure.

What is PTC for Parents of Kids with Special Needs?

Powerful Tools for Caregivers: For Parents of Children with Special Needs is adapted from the original PTC program and is designed to support a parent or parents who are caring for a child of any age (minor or adult) who has special health or behavioral needs.

It provides the same caregiver support curriculum while focusing on the unique challenges of parents caring for a child of any age with health or behavior challenges. See program brochure.

Is PTC for me?

Caregivers who take PTC experience:

Greater self-efficacy (confidence in one’s ability to accomplish something a self-identified goal)

Better emotional well-being

Increased use of self-care behaviors

Increased awareness and use of community resources

What Will I Learn?

Topics include:

Research

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an evidence-based program - that is, it has been researched and proven to provide specific benefits.

Becoming a PTC Leader

It provides the same caregiver support curriculum while focusing on the unique challenges of parents caring for a child of any age with health or behavior challenges. See program brochure .