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National Diabetes Education Program
NDEP's National Minority Organizations
NDEP is committed to reducing the burden of diabetes and its complications among
populations with health disparities; that is, people who experience higher rates of diabetes and its complications, and who may have special needs in
communication, access to culturally and linguistically appropriate health care, and
the opportunity to pursue healthy lifestyle behaviors.
As part of this outreach, NDEP funds cooperative agreements with national
minority organizations (NMOs) that offer access to high-risk populations through a community-based approach and trusted delivery system channels. Each NMO
- Participates on NDEP workgroups.
- Identifies gaps in available materials on diabetes prevention and control
targeting special populations.
- Disseminates messages through appropriate cultural media channels
- Develops and implements community interventions.
- Improves health care provider capacity to provide linguistically and culturally
appropriate patient information.
Minority Organizations Awarded NDEP Grants
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) competitively selected the
following NMOs to help disseminate culturally appropriate
educational materials and messages for populations at special risk for diabetes.
All the groups establish coalitions and partnerships with ongoing diabetes education
programs to improve the capacity of local health care providers to provide competent,
appropriate diabetes information and to develop evaluation plans to monitor
and measure accomplishments.
The Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP)
http://www.aaip.com/*
Contact: Patricia Yarholar, MPH-CHES, 405-943-1211
AAIP pursues excellence in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) health
care by promoting education in the medical disciplines, honoring traditional
healing practices, and restoring the balance of mind, body, and spirit. AAIP
members actively support medical education, cross-cultural training between
Western and traditional medicine, and assist Indian communities. Since 1998,
AAIP has worked with NDEP on a campaign to educate and heighten awareness about
diabetes in American Indian communities.
AAIP
- Develops and disseminates culturally tailored messages to AI/AN communities
through printed materials, audio/visual aids, public service announcements
and training.
- In partnership with the NDEP American Indian Workgroup, AAIP provides special
diabetes education messages and products for AI communities; so far, AAIP
has produced several media campaigns and diabetes-related products.
Key Activities
- Train people to use the NDEP Community Partnership Guide for AI/AN Supplement.
- Promote the Move It (And Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes) Youth Campaign.
- Develop community diabetes coalitions incorporating the Diabetes
Today Facilitators Guide.
AAPCHO is a national association representing community health organizations
primarily serving Asian Americans (AA) and Pacific Islanders (PI) in the United
States, particularly the medically underserved. AAPCHO’s mission is to
promote advocacy, collaboration, and leadership that improve the health status
and access of AA’s, Native Hawaiians and PI’s within the United
States, its territories and freely associated states, primarily through member
community health centers. NDEP has worked with AAPCHO since 1997.
AAPCHO
- Develops, implements, and evaluates specific program components to
disseminate culturally appropriate diabetes education messages through community
and media channels.
- Reaches targeted populations with culturally and linguistically
appropriate intervention strategies.
- Partners with (NDEP) Asian American and Pacific Islander Workgroup.
- NDEP, its partners, and workgroups collaborate to create messages and materials,
disseminate and outreach at the community level to target audiences for implementation
of NDEP programs, and promote awareness campaigns.
Current Diabetes Programs
AAPCHO’s “BALANCE Program for Diabetes” (Building Awareness
Locally and Nationally through Community Empowerment) is funded by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to implement NDEP activities. The BALANCE
Program objectives are
- Increase awareness of diabetes among AAPI communities.
- Improve the ability of health providers serving AAPI patients to provide
culturally and linguistically competent services and messages.
- Improve quality of care for AAPIs and address barriers to health care.
- Improve the treatment and outcomes for AAPIs with diabetes.
- Promote early diagnosis, and even prevent the onset of the disease.
Key Activities
- Campaign with print and radio messages.
- Conduct community discussion groups to profile AAPIs’ knowledge,
attitudes and beliefs about diabetes.
- Develop the campaign’s creative strategy and objectives.
- Coordinate a review of 150 existing diabetes education materials.
- Train media spokespersons for the NDEP’s AAPI media campaign.
Contact: Collin Elias, 703-685-0510
ECDC
was established in 1983 as a nonprofit, community-based organization to help
respond to the needs of the rapidly growing Ethiopian community in Washington,
DC, and in other parts of the United States. ECDC is a national voluntary agency
authorized by the Department of State to resettle refugees.
ECDC
- Serves the African immigrant and refugee community through a wide spectrum
of local and national programs.
- Reduces
diabetes-related
sickness and death among African newcomers through a national diabetes prevention and education
program.
- Develops and disseminates facilitation training, peer education, community
participation, and educational material development that are culturally and
linguistically tailored to African newcomer communities.
Key Activities
- Train the staff of affiliate organizations using the Diabetes Today
Facilitator’s Guide.
- Develop and disseminate diabetes information in several African
languages.
- Work with community-based organizations and church groups targeting Somali,
Sudanese, Togolese, Ethiopian, Nigerian, and Congolese refugees.
Contact: Paul Baker, 202-797-4357
Founded in 1973, NAHH is the oldest and largest network of health and human
service providers serving more than 10 million Hispanic people throughout the
United States.
NAHH
- Provides community-based solutions that improve the health and well-being
of Hispanics in the United States.
- Implements effective strategies for the delivery of diabetes education messages
to Hispanic/Latino communities using a variety of culturally and linguistically
proficient community-based approaches.
- Works in partnership with the NDEP Hispanic-Latino Workgroup .
Key Activities
- Collaborates with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Diabetes
Research Training Center to develop a comprehensive curricula for training
health care providers on culturally and linguistically proficient formal diabetes
education.
- Disseminates publications, including NDEP’s Recipe and Meal
Planner (Recetas y Plan de Comidas); 7 Principles for Controlling Your Diabetes
for Life (7 Principos para Controlar la Diabetes Para Toda la Vida); and The
Power to Control Diabetes is in Your Hands (El Poder de Controlar Su Diabetes
Esta en sus Manos).
- Reaches Hispanic consumers via a collaboration with Radio Bilingue
(call-in radio programs provide diabetes education messages).
Contact: Deborah Cutler-Ortiz, MSW, 202-898-1604
Founded in 1910, NUL is the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movement
devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream,
and secure economic self-reliance, power, equality, and civil rights. NUL affiliates
are active in more than 100 cities and 34 states, and the District of
Columbia. Since 1988, NUL has conducted diabetes education outreach to its constituents.
NUL
- Launched a nationwide diabetes education and prevention program targeting
African Americans and the physicians that treat them. The Lift Every Voice
program uses community-based interventions to empower African Americans to
educate themselves about how to prevent diabetes.
- Provides
special diabetes education messages and products for African American
communities by working in partnership with the NDEP African American
Workgroup.
Key Activities
- Develop an NUL Diabetes Control Policy that includes establishing
regional training and technical centers to assist affiliates, national partners,
and other organizations interested in the health of African Americans.
- Develop culturally specific and linguistically appropriate
educational materials, including a health Web site and a multimedia campaign
- Train the staff of affiliate organizations using the Diabetes Today
Curriculum.
NAWHO is a national, non-profit, health organization with a mission to eliminate
health disparities for Asian Americans (AA). NAWHO’s goal is to decrease
the incidence, morbidity and mortality of diabetes among AA’s. NAWHO’s
primary program component is its community affiliates. Affiliates implement
tailored action plans designed to reach AA and Pacific Islanders (PI) in their
states and local communities. Affiliates are located in Atlanta, Chicago, Hawaii,
New York, and Oregon. Through affiliates activities NAWHO is able to raise awareness
in the AA community about diabetes by implementing culturally and linguistically
appropriate educational strategies, utilizing community forums, media advocacy
and by utilizing the NAWHO web site. NDEP has worked with NAWHO since 1993.
NAWHO’s program objectives are as follows:
NAWHO
- Engages AA communities in partnerships to create and implement innovative,
culturally and linguistically appropriate diabetes intervention strategies.
- Motivates AA with diabetes or at high-risk of diabetes toward use of diabetes
care services; strengthen the cultural ability of providers to better serve
AA communities.
- Mobilizes a national AA diabetes education movement as an extension of the
NDEP and to establish program partners at the local and state level to ensure
synergy of diabetes efforts for Asian Americans.
Current Diabetes Programs
NAWHO distributed the NDEP’s AAPI media kit to AAPI print and radio media
outlets throughout the country, reaching more than 750,000 people. NAWHO developed
diabetes education materials and is planning regional conferences to disseminate
these materials, as well as the NDEP’s Asian-language media kits.
Key Activities
- Develop the Transforming Information into Action: The National Asian
American Diabetes Education Campaign. Increase awareness and action
of diabetes among Asian Americans.
- Partner with and provide on-going technical assistance to local Asian American
community-based organizations.
- Create and implement innovative, culturally and linguistically appropriate
diabetes intervention strategies for Asian Americans.
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