Our 3rd draft of World Class ACT is in progress. Leave your input, questions, and comments to continue to shape the framework.

The World Class ACT…Accessible Caring Team Trial

Think of the best mothers, fathers, and leaders you know. When I think of them, what stands out is their patience, wisdom and ways that they guide and enlighten and empower those that are in their care and circle of influence.

In our modern world there are so many sources for education and many resources and plans to have healthy and well people and communities yet it seems that they exist in silos that compete for dollars and time.

Silos represent much knowledge and activity. Collaboration between silos allows for the flow and richness of diversity for better outcomes. The best tools will allow us to retain and restore personal connections and work smarter to collaborate and connect relationships and resources with individuals, families, worksites, organizations, and communities in meaningful ways at teachable and usable moments.

HIPPA Compliant, (Health Information Privacy & Portability Act) was meant to share helpful information so that tests, data, time and resources did not have to be duplicated as the medical patient, health professional, or an insurance provider. Time is of the essence and no one likes having the feeling that they just wasted their time or their resources.

December 2, 2015 brought a very big "piece of the puzzle" to light…the HIPPA Compliant Cisco WEBEX software can help us very greenly and rather leanly open the doors of our silos to collaborate with best-practices of knowledge, skills, and resources anywhere that has access to high speed Internet so that all inside and outside of the silos will benefit and be engaged in best outcomes.

The World Class Act will build upon the growing body of research that says we can reclaim and improve healthy outcomes in mind-spirit-body with wellness behaviors and nurturing environments. Those that have their spirit broken at any age have a hard time feeling happiness and finding meaning in their lives. That is where wholistic therapy options come in. A key portion of the WCA is to connect with networks of multidisciplinary therapists that have had excellent results in the shortest and less expensive ways, known as "best-practices".

Studying cultures and the research around the globe that have highest levels of happiness even amidst financial scarcity have taught us all that we can heal and rebuild ourselves into healthy people in nurturing environments with open access to best-practices and promising emerging research options.

Infant Mental Health research and best practices are interdisciplinary and foundational to developing healthy families and well functioning communities. It is a goal of the Wellness Weavers model to weave solid IMH practitioners into the core of the World Class ACT Wellness Oriented Mutual Aid Network.

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* 1. Please indicate your current role and interest in this emerging research project. Multiple answers are allowed so check all that apply to you. Please also add your clarifying questions or comments below.

I am a business owner and interested to offer this community service-learning and wellness based system as an adjunct to the health and wellness benefits offered by the health insurance company we have a policy with.

I am enrolled in a health insurance plan through the USA Health Market Place

I am a small business owner that is struggling to find and provide affordable health insurance for me, my family and my employees.

I am a working middle-class person that cannot afford the monthly health insurance premium that the ACA says I need to pay for coverage.

I have retired and in need of health insurance until I am old enough for coverage by Medicare

I have Medicare and still find it difficult to access all the therapeutic services that I would like to try.

I have Health insurance but I need support for making healthier choices with a system that fits into my activities of daily living.

I live alone and find it difficult to eat as well as I know I should.

Our family has various reasons that make it difficult to eat as well as we should.

I am a member of a faith-community that does not believe in seeking medical treatments to treat cancer, diabetes, heart disease.

I personally do not like to take medicines but I do agree to have the baseline assessments that include blood work, bone health and brain health baseline screening tools.

I will consider taking herbs, food supplements, and vitamins recommended to me based on the blood tests and assessments done as a way to study the effectiveness of the wholistic health and wellness plan. I understand that I have a choice. I also understand that affordable means will be made available via the principles of the MAN-WOMAN experiment.

I am willing to be immunized (and including the children in my family) to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases that the CDC recommends for specific areas of the globe.

I have concerns about some of the immunizations and side effects.

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Please check all the understandings and statements that you identify with. Please also add your own comments at the end of the choices.

Yes, I understand that this WOMAN does have a hub campus and wellness resource center in Waterville, Kansas that has been developing using an informal system of volunteers paying it forward since 2010. The Wellness Weavers program foundation is based on Helen (Stucky Risdon, RN) Weaver's 40+ years of family-centered community health promotion nursing practice. Her community health work includes specialty work in Hospital-based and Senior-Center based Exercise Therapy and Early Quality Childhood Health Promotion with therapeutic humor woven in. Additionally, she has observed and served with people with dementia and substance use disorders in her home, on her home campus, and while caring for family and friends when they were members of Assisted Living and Full Care in Senior Residences.

Yes, I understand that no formal TimeBanking system exists in Kansas and that aspect of the WOMAN still needs to be developed and relies on funding and input from the membership that this process is enrolling.

Yes, I understand that Wellness Weavers has a 3-yr Memorandum of Agreement with the emerging global MAN and that the emerging pilot project is still in its infancy.

I share one or more of the stressors in my work, personal, and/or community life.

I am looking forward to collaborating with others that want to develop a WOMAN, Wellness Oriented Mutual Aid Network system that is based on weaving support for healthy active families and improving systems for communication, problem-solving, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.

I want to be part of developing the Community Service-Learning system to get it up and running ASAP. I understand that databases and TimeBanking systems exist that need to be assessed for best-fit. I will collaborate so we can get nimble and dynamic short-term and longterm work teams and training teams up and going ASAP within the communities of our WOMAN members.

Other (please specify)

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* 3.
Just so you understand the depth and scope of this project, the little woman behind this survey, coordinating the development of the Wellness Weavers new model WOMAN, has 40+ years of nursing and is me, Helen (Stucky Risdon, RN) Weaver.

If you want the authentic transparent me read on, if not, skip to the next question. Back in the early 1970s in nursing school, we were told that it was not professional to let our patients know anything personal about our lives. Dr Patch Adams believes that patients and professionals are peers. I believe that by sharing the stressors that have shaped me that it breaks down barriers and proves that I am human and not under the illusion of being perfect. I am also grateful for the many people and the many years that have been my teachers to improve my knowledge, skills, and resiliency amidst adversity.

As a very young nurse, I had a real eye-opener to the health issues and the Medicaid-funded health care system in the Appalachian Mountains in 1977. I only lasted six months.

What made me turn in my resignation:
It bothered me that I saw "food stamps" being used for junk foods leaving cash for purchasing cigarettes, alcohol, and disposable diapers that were not properly disposed of.
It bothered me to be around so many smoking people and I was stressed and started joining in the behaviors of my peers.
Only one family of all my home health patients grew a garden.
I was reprimanded for being conscientious and checking the family member's blood pressures when "my assigned patient" had high blood pressure and for spending too much time doing health education.
It bothered me that my student loan was coming due.
I was offered a good paying job in Kansas that would allow me to pay off my loan in 6 months with frugal living.
I had a very healthy and vitally alive Grandmother in Kansas that was 80 years old and still mowing her own lawn and growing a weed free garden and keeping a very neat and clean house.
My grandfather died in his 70's with "hardening of the arteries" that caused mental confusion and I wanted to understand more about preventing diseases.

My Grandmother Rachel Stucky was a woman like the one referenced in Proverbs 31.
She demonstrated her character and modeled and mentor right living by:
Getting an education that involved physical education and recreational tennis in 1914
Being a teacher until she got married.
Marrying a Christian man that could farm and served in Church and on the School Board.
Helping with the farm chores, preserving food for the off-garden season, and feeding harvest crews.
Making very precise fine quilts and other useful items.
Keeping her family together and feed with garden & taking out a loan to rebuild and buy one cow and some chickens after losing everything on the farm in a tornado when they had a 7 year old and a 3 year old.
Welcoming foreign college students into her home and traveling to foreign countries for Mennonite World Conference or to visit friends and new family in Puerto Rico.
Teaching me how to put up food from the gardens and orchard and how to cook.
Demonstrating how work, play, church, study, and healthy eating all fit into daily life.
Allowing me to ask her any question no matter how sensitive the topic might be to a woman raised and living the modern Mennonite life.

Stressors that have challenged me to build my faith and improve my resiliency skills:
Witnessing verbal and physical violence
Watching my parents grieve
Experiencing grief
Experiencing my parent's and my own divorces
Being falsely accused of wrong doing
Being fired
Feeling embarrassed and ashamed
Falling short of my goals
Financial matters
Marrying a 100% Native American recovering alcoholic survivor of many childhood traumas &

That was interesting history that helped me understand more about the project.

That was too much disclosure information.

Other (please specify)

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* 4. To continue in this process, please include your best contact information.

Name:

Company:

Address 1:

Address 2:

City/Town:

State/Province:

ZIP/Postal Code:

Country:

Email Address:

Phone Number:

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* 5. Even if you have insurance under the ACA Affordable Care Act system in the U.S. or whatever your governments system is, you can sign up to be in the cohort group that has both systems. This is NOT a legally binding contract! It is an indication of interest in continuing in the emerging process.

Below are some of the groups that I am thinking would be good to include in a community health study. Please add your input to shape this because more heads are better than just one.

There will also be one cohort group that ONLY has the new WOMAN, Wellness Oriented Mutual Aid Network, collaborative and cooperative health and wellness system for one to three years.

Please indicate which cohort group you would like to be in.

I will be in the group that has one of the status quo ACA governmental compliant insurance plans AND the new WOMAN Collaborative-Cooperative Plan.

I will be in the group that ONLY has the new WOMAN Collaborative-Cooperative Plan.

Other (please specify)

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* 6.
I understand that Wellness Weavers is one of the eight pilot projects within the global MAN, Mutual Aid Network that is currently involved in a Genorouscity Crowdfunding campaign. Wellness Weavers is set up to be able to accept tax-deductible donations that are routed through Mainstream, Inc

At the end of this survey, if you want to see some humor shots of Helen's Sister Sues' Monkey Business characters AND see what other services are available to fit your giving or credit earning ways then just scroll down past the pictures when you are redirected.

Beware that the Wellness Weavers website is still not clean and lean. You might be surprised to know that the website is the main way that Helen, that's me, has had to work and try to convey this very complex wholistic system over the last six years. I am not a professionally trained webmaster nor a marketer. I hope that soon the MAN-WOMAN process connects me with all the staff and means to support them that most foundations and health care service centers have.

Yes, I will donate what I can and understand that none of the suggested amounts are required.

Yes, I understand that I can donate however, cash flow is an issue. I will look forward to using the Mutual Aid Currencies to earn my membership fee.

I like the direction that this is headed. I know researchers, businesses, or funders that will be interested and connecting you will them is how I would like to help.

Other (please specify)