Diabetes: A Family Matter

Diabetes Education (Government sites)

National Diabetes Education Program (CDC)

This a joint program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health, and 200-plus partners. Partners work together to improve the treatment and outcomes of diabetes in individuals, families, communities, and health care systems. Many educational resources can be located here including links to Power to Prevent.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse

This is an information dissemination service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The service was established in 1978 to increase knowledge and understanding about diabetes among patients, health care professionals, and the general public.

Power to Prevent

This is a curriculum developed to help educate African American communities on how to prevent and control diabetes through healthy eating and physical activity. However, this resource might also be useful to other groups as well. This resource provides community-based organizations, faith-based communities, diabetes educators, and other program leaders with a step-by-step resource to learn about making healthy life-style changes for themselves and families.

Working Together to Manage Diabetes

This an interdisciplinary primer that focuses on diabetes-related conditions affecting the foot, eye, and mouth, as well as the issues related to drug therapy management. Working Together promotes a team approach to comprehensive diabetes care and provides simple care recommendations to clinicians about making cross-disciplinary treatment referrals. The primer has been revised to include latest statistics. A new section on primary diabetes prevention outlines the results of the Diabetes Prevention Program study and the role pharmacy, podiatry, optometry and dental professionals can play in preventing diabetes in those at risk.

Working together to Manage Diabetes: Guide for Pharmacy, Podiatry, Optometry, and Dental Professionals

This activity for 1.25 contact hours is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.25 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program is a designated event for pharmacists to receive 1 Contact Hour in pharmacy education. The Universal Program Number is 387-999-06-042-H01.