Lealman Needs Navigator

Name: Parkinson’s Disease Programs
Start: 2024-11-19T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-19T11:00:00-05:00
Location: Lealman Exchange

Our on-site Lealman Exchange management team includes an in-house Lealman Navigator. The Lealman Navigator is a non-licensed, non-clinical staff member who gathers
information and connects clients directly to community agencies and resources participating in the Lealman Exchange and throughout the Lealman Exchange Collective Impact network.

Holistic Support

The Lealman Navigator is here to help you get the support you need to access the wrap-around services available through the Collective Impact Model at the Lealman
Exchange. The Navigator is committed to removing a client’s barriers to assistance by identifying critical resources, helping them navigate through the services and systems, and promoting client’s long-term and sustainable success in finding, receiving and benefiting from available services.

Meet Your Navigator

Becca McCoy is a St. Pete native, honored to return to serve her hometown in this meaningful way. She comes back to the area after four years in Atlanta, where she served as Marketing and Communications Coordinator of Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Secretary of the Board of Directors for Smyrna Arts Council, and contributing writer / photographer for Smyrna Vinings Lifestyle Magazine. She is passionate about interpersonal relationships, placemaking, and the integration of the Arts for healthy communities. In her other life, she is co-owner of Leafmore Studios, a creative small business, along with her husband, artist Justin Groom.

YMCA at Lealman Exchange serves as a resource center for our community by providing programs and services for all ages.

Paid Programs & Services

Total Parkinson’s

This evidence-based exercise program is designed by leading Parkinson’s fitness specialists to retrain the mind and body. The program targets daily functional challenges and symptom-specific fitness agendas. Exercise plans are adapted to meet all levels of the disease, valuable to newly diagnosed and progressed states alike. Learn How to Enroll

What to Expect

Each class is 60 minutes long
Symptom-specific exercises, targeting altered balance, Bradykinesia (slowing of all movements), depression, diminished voice volume, freezing, masked facial expressions, stiffness, stooped posture, walking/gait
Camaraderie and support from instructors and classmates

Current Offerings

Mixed-Ability and Chair Level offered at YMCA at Lealman Exchange: Ongoing – Tuesdays & Thursdays at 10 – 11AM

Neuro Challenge Care Partner Connection Support Group

In this group, care partners have the opportunity to meet in this supportive environment while their PWP is attending select fitness classes facilitated by the YMCA of Greater St. Petersburg. Held during the Thursday classes at YMCA at Lealman Exchange (listed above). For more information about this support group, please visit www.neurochallenge.org.

Current Offerings

Ongoing – During Total Parkinson’s classes at YMCA at Lealman Exchange

Facility Rental