Partner Sites

The Utah/Idaho Chapter proudly partners with community organizations to offer the Arthritis Foundation Life Improvement Series - Arthritis Foundation Aquatic Program, Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program, and Arthritis Foundation Self Help Program. To learn about becoming a partner site, download the agreement form.

Why offer the Arthritis Foundation Life Improvement Series programs
Steps to offer Arthritis Foundation programs
Evidence that our programs work: Aquatic | Exercise | Self-Help
Responsibilities of partner facilities
Sample marketing materials to promote your classes:
Aquatic Brochure | Exercise Ad | Self-Help Brochure

Paperwork for Arthritis Foundation Programs

In order to provide high quality programs, the Arthritis Foundation requires a small amount of paperwork from each site.

Partner Site Agreement Forms

Partner site agreement forms ensure that both your facility and the Arthritis Foundation agree to the ongoing requirements for offering these programs in an appropriate facility with trained leaders. We are required to collect these agreements on an annual basis. After your first year as a program site, we will automatically move your new agreement due date to January for ease of tracking.

Participant Attendance & Report Forms and Participant Release Forms

The Participant Attendance & Report Form must be completed for each class you offer. See the instructions for more information.
The Participant Release Form must be completed for each new class participant.
These forms should be submitted to Leslie Nelson at the Chapter Office at the end of each class series or for ongoing classes, no later than two weeks after the quarter ends (April 15, July 15, October 15 and January 15th).

Why collect this information? The Arthritis Foundation is working in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to show how many people benefit from our programs. We rely on the quarterly attendance reports from our partner sites to measure program growth and to ensure continued federal support. In addition to providing important information to the CDC, statistics from active classes help us to find grant funding to underwrite the costs of program leader training, keeping costs well below industry averages.

Leader Certification

A cornerstone of the Arthritis Foundation’s high-quality programs is leader certification. Program leaders must complete a training workshop and teach six classes to become nationally certified. To maintain certification, leaders must teach at least six classes per year and complete a re-certification workshop every three years.

Program Director
Leslie Nelson
801-536-0990
800-444-4993