March is MS Awareness Month

This is a pharmaceutical-sponsored program.

A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis can raise many questions and concerns. You may feel isolated and scared, wondering how to cope with the ongoing concerns of a chronic disease. Your medical needs will be addressed and followed by your neurologist, and your neurologist doctor will be at the core of your MS treatment management.  

The MS 101 workshop provides information about MS and teaches strategies to successfully manage MS and ways to cope with the emotional and physical aspects of the disease. This program is offered quarterly. It is most beneficial for individuals diagnosed with MS within the past two years. Free meals or refreshments will be provided.

• Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 5 to 9 p.m.
• Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 1 to 5 p.m.

An Oral Treatment Option for Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis

 An informative event for people living with MS and their care partners.

When: 

Thursday, March 20, 2014

6:00 PM Eastern  

Where: 

For directions only: (502) 875-5599

Speaker:

 Jenifer Patterson, RN, ARNP-BC

Norton Neurology Services,  

Louisville, KY  

Our featured speaker will discuss relapsing forms of MS, provide an overview of a once-daily oral therapy (teriflunomide), and inform patients of available support.  

   
  

Jennifer Lampton, MRC, CRC, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor with The Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (Voc Rehab), will have monthly office hours at the Norton Neuroscience Institute Resource Center. 

NEXT AVAILABLE DATE: March 21, 2014 

The Division of Program Services provides vocational rehabilitation to reach your vocational goal.  Some of the services they provide are:

* Vocational Rehab

* Supported employment

* Personal assistant services

* Telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices

* Rehabilitation technology

* Job placement/job retention services

While Voc Rehab is dedicated to helping individuals get back to work, they offer so much more!  They work with consumers by enhancing the availability of assistive technology devices and services to improve the productivity and quality of life for individuals with disabilities. 

If you would like to take advantage of these great benefits, contact Heather Osborne at (502) 559-3230, ext. 12, or by e-mail Heather.Osborne@NortonHealthcare.org to schedule your appointment.   

This service will be available the 1st and 3rd Fridays of every month from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon. Please take advantage of this valuable service - it has continued to be a resounding success for those who are taking advantage of this invaluable service!

The Norton Neuroscience Institute Resource Center is pleased to announce that Apprisen Financial Advocates has begun conducting free client meetings at our office.
 
These preliminary meetings will enable you to talk one-on-one with a counselor regarding your financial "health" and the challenges that you are facing on a daily basis.  After this meeting, the counselor will be able to continue working with you to develop an action plan to fit your needs and goals.

Call to make your appointment on the next meeting

date, April 11, 2014 

Call today to set-up a thirty (30) minute counseling session with an Apprisen Financial Counselor. 

Call (502) 559-3230, ext. 11 or e-mail Lindsay.Ross @NortonHealthcare.org.
  

Their Mission:  Helping people improve their financial well-being through counseling, community outreach and financial education. 
 
Apprisen is a non-profit 501(c)(3) based in Columbus, Ohio and is now the result of almost 20 merged financial services organizations since 1999. We continue to carry on the commitment to community-based Financial Services and education with one of the largest networks of local offices in the U.S.  Apprisen moves into the future with a focus on creating innovative services that can help people in every stage of their lives meet their financial goals.

Budget and Credit
Financial decisions affect your future, but you may not think about them until it's too late.
 
Whether you are juggling paycheck to paycheck, trying to get out of debt, or doing just fine, our Certified Financial Counselors are here to help you get and stay on track with your money.
 
Work with one of their Certified Financial Counselors to analyze your current income, monthly living expenses and debt. Together you will develop a budget and action plan to fit your needs and goals.

An Opportunity with Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville! 

*Habitat is still looking for the perfect candidate!  If you feel you are that person, please give them a call!

In October of 2014, The Cain Center for the Disabled plans to sponsor a home through Habitat for Humanity.  That means that the Homebuyer would close on and move into their home in the early part of 2015.  The Cain Center sincerely hopes to find a homebuyer that will need and appreciate a home that is fully accessible-either for themselves or for their children.  By partnering with the Cain Center for the Disabled and Habitat, the homebuyer would join a very unique homeownership program that would build them a brand new, fully accessible home. 

Habitat is different from a bank or traditional home loan in that homebuyers earn "sweat" equity hours, at a minimum of 20 hours per month.  Hours can be earned by helping build homes, doing customer service in our ReStores, and by attending required classes, among other things.  Habitat has built homes with a number of disabled homebuyers and have found enriching "sweat" equity for each of them.

Habitat offers new (or rehab) homes with 20 or 25 year, ZERO percent interest loans.  The monthly payment usually averages $450-$550 per month.  In addition, there is a $1,700 down payment, which would be payable upon closing.  Habitat homes come with refrigerators and ranges, and they are all-electric, EnergyStar and extremely efficient homes, which keeps utility bills low.  Habitat builds primarily in the West End neighborhoods of Louisville, as well as Oldham County. 

Habitat hopes to find this homebuyer as soon as possible! If you are interested in this opportunity, you can apply online at www.louisvillehabitat.org, or you can call Jaclyn Isaacs, Program Manager, direct at (502) 805-1401 to request an application by mail.  Please indicate "Cain Center" in the "Neighborhood Preference" box if you apply online.