Please join us on Saturday, October 21, 2:00–3:30pm at Holy Family Catholic Church at 702 Parker Road, Las Cruces, NM.

Nancy Claypool will be the guest speaker. Please see the attachment.

This is a free outreach sponsored by the FDWDAC – open to everyone.

We look forward to a good turnout! If you have any questions please contact one of the co-chairs.

Agenda: Pain Management

• My Journey with Pain Management Awareness
• The Change Process / Personal Empowerment
• Moving away from Assumptions, Myths, and Fallacies
• Recognizing and Applying the differences between Acute Pain and Chronic Pain
• A Holistic Approach / The Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Model
• Effective Goal Setting in Biological, Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Realms
• Group Exercise and Discussion

Nancy Claypool, LCSW earned her Master’s in Social Work from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985.  While still in California, she worked at Eden Medical Center as a Psychiatric Social Worker in their inpatient psychiatry program and then as a Therapist in their Partial Hospitalization Program.  At Alameda Hospital, she was the Primary Therapist and later the Program Director in their inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Program.  She came to New Mexico in 2005, where she was a Therapist at Ben Archer Health Center until she retired in 2022.  While there, she started a Pain Management Support Group and was a Field Instructor for 2nd year MSW student interns from NMSU.

Co-Chairs

Pat Aguirre  –  patricia.ann.aguirre@gmail.com

Rev. Carolyn Wilkins – RevCWilkins@gmail.com