Diabetes: A Family Matter

New CDC Funded Continuing Project

New CDC funded continuing project will include 5 continuing Ohio Appalachian counties (Athens, Hocking, Lawrence, Perry, Ross) and be expanded to 3 other Ohio counties (Adams, Brown, Scioto), 3 Kentucky counties (Carter, Lewis, Rowan) and 2 West Virginia Counties (Mingo, Wayne). A two day workshop will occur at the Ohio University Southern campus. In attendance will be county team members from the project county groups. Members will learn more abut the Diabetes: A Family Matter program toolkit. After the training session, teams will retuto their counties and recruit and train volunteer SUGAR Helpers to work together to promote healthy lifestyles, prevent diabetes, and support those with diabetes do better self-management. For more information about this project contact Dr. Sharon Denham at denham@ohio.edu.

Final workshop for CDC Dissemination and Evaluation Project set for August 11, 2010

The final workshop for the CDC Evaluation and Dissemination Project conducted in 2009-2010 year is being held at Ohio University on August 11, 2010. County team members from 8 Ohio Appalachian counties (Athens, Hocking, Lawrence, Meigs, Perry, Pike, Ross, and Vinton), SUGAR Helpers, and others will be attending.

Diabetes Translation Conference 2010 Videos Available

Click here to see the Opening Plenary Session Video

Click here to see the video by US Senator Al Franken

New Diabetes Education Videos Posted

Dr. Denham discusses the Family Health Model.

Click here to see the video

Free Diabetes Information from the National Diabetes Education Program

Visit the National Diabetes Education Program website for free information on how to prevent and control your diabetes.

Click here to visit the NDEP website

Social Networking Site is up and Ready to go!

The Diabetes: A Family Matter Social Network is up and running. Join now to connect with others in the Appalachian region! It's free and open to anyone! You can access the social network by clicking on the Communicate link in the top navigation of any page within the Diabetes: A Family Matter website.

If you are new to the site you will first need to create a user account. To do so, click Sign Up and fill out and submit the online registration form. Be sure to choose a Username and Password that you can easily remember (Feel free to resuse a Username and Password that you are already using for a different website). You will recieve an email confirming your email address. Once confirmed, you will then be able to set up your personal profile, search for and add friends, upload files, start a blog, send private messages, and create and join social groups.

Click here to access our social network in the “Communicate” section

New Fotonovella Added

In the hectic times leading to the launch of the Diabetes: A Family Matter project, we inadvertently overlooked an important part of the Toolkit: the fotonovella to Family Support for Those with Sugar Diabetes. This is a companion piece to the other work, Living with Sugar Diabetes, which has been online since launch. The two fotonovellas are intended to present two sides of the metaphorical "coin"—a negative situation (Living with Sugar Diabetes) and a positive situation (Family Support for Those with Sugar Diabetes).

We apologize for the mistake.

Click to view the fotonovellas section of our Toolkit website to download both works.

Diabetes: A Family Matter Dissemenation and Evaluation Project Workshops

The final "Diabetes: A Family Matter Dissemenation and Evaluation Project" Workshop will be taking place on August 11th, 2010. For more details, please visit our Conferences and Workshops section.

Conference Information Added

We have just added a series of Powerpoint presentations from our first conference, the one which lauched the Diabetes: A Family Matter project back in March.

You can visit its site and download materials by clicking here.