Regina Elzy took the Chronic Disease Self-Management Course at Charleston's Shiloh Baptist Church. "Then I'd come home and go over it with John," she said. Both are diabetic. "Now we drag out that book when we've got a question."

Dee Wilder of the Bureau of Senior Services (standing) and Wendy Lewis of the Partnership of African-American Churches co-=led a group at St. Albans' Hansford community center.

A dozen members of Lincoln County's Mud River Volunteer Fire Department took the class at the firehall.