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Gaining Ground on Arthritis:
Managing Arthritis in the Agricultural Workplace

If you suffer from arthritis like millions of other agricultural workers across the country, you know that everyday farm and ranch tasks can put a lot of stress on your body. While there is no cure for arthritis, there are ways to manage the pain.

Gaining Ground on Arthritis, a collaborative DVD project from the Breaking New Ground Resource Center and the Arthritis Foundation, Indiana Chapter, helps you understand arthritis and gives practical tips on protecting your joints, managing stress, and modifying work practices through special tools and other means. Learn about these changes today to start improving your life tomorrow.

Click here to view clips from the DVD and access ordering information.

To Everything There is a Season - A Guide for Caregivers of Farmers and Ranchers with Disabilities & Leader's Guide 

This resource package features an encouraging 45-minute videotape with advice from caregivers, an assistive technology specialist, and experts. Additionally, a written resource, brochure, and leader's guide are included to provide advice, encouragement, resources, and assistive technology ideas for caregivers.

Complete package (video or DVD): $60.00. VHS videotape or DVD only: $30.00. Written resource: $12.00. Leader's Guide with overhead masters: $22.00. Brochure: $0.75.

4-H Perfect Fit Leader's Kit 

This 11-minute video kit provides insight into the lives of young people with disabilities who were involved in 4-H, and their parents. Explore success stories, discover parents' perceptions, and hear from a volunteer leader with disabilities. Also included in the kit is a leader's guide and two brochures that describe the benefits of involving youth with disabilities in 4-H.

Package: VHS videotape or DVD: $25.00

Cooperative Extension Service and Accessibility

This resource package includes a 15-minute video presentation, a Practical Solutions Resource Manual and brochure. It provides practical information in an easy-to-use format that is designed to help Extension improve the accessibility of its programs, services, materials, extension offices and fairgrounds. Also provides sources for assistive devices, technical and legal information, and copy-ready handouts for training in the community.

Package (specify video or DVD): $25.00

National AgrAbility Project (15:45) 

Gives an overview of the National AgrAbility Project, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service. Information is included about the prevalence of disability in rural America as well as services and programs for the agricultural worker who has a disability.

(Open captioning available - please specify) 1/2" VHS videotape: $20.00 

Improving Your Rural Business with the ADA

This resource is designed to assist business owners in understanding the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). The resource packet includes a 13-minute videotape on making businesses more accessible, handouts, transparency masters, and a leader's guide to help in organizing and conducting a training session.

Package (specify video or DVD) $25. VHS or DVD only: $20.

Farming with an Upper Extremity Amputation (23:00)

Features ideas and encouragement from farmers with arm amputations who have continued to successfully farm after their injury. Contains useful advice and techniques from family members and health professionals familiar with prosthetics and the severe conditions associated with farm work. Farm machinery and tool modifications which can assist a farmer with an amputation are also addressed. VHS videotape or DVD: $30.00