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National Diabetes Education Program
Continuing Education
Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive Tool Kit for
Organizations Serving Asian and Pacific Islander Communities
 Goal
The goal of Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive
Tool Kit for Organizations Serving Asian and Pacific Islander
Communities is to build capacity of Asian American and Pacific
Islander (AAPI) community-based and clinic-based organizations in the
areas of community assessments, evaluation, organizational support,
staffing, building coalitions and partnerships, funding, community
outreach/inreach, and marketing.
Objectives
The following are the learning objectives for these materials. After
this activity, the participant will be able to
Part A (Sections 1 and 2): Introduction and The Community Approach to Responding Early (CARE) Model
- Provide an overview of the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) and its goals.
- Identify the main audience addressed in this tool kit.
- List the eight areas of organizational capacity described in this tool kit.
- Describe how each chapter of this tool kit is organized.
- List the known risk factors for diabetes and issues specific to diabetes
in AAPI populations.
- Describe major barriers to health care for AAPIs.
- Describe the underlying assumptions and theories behind the CARE Model.
- Identify the Transtheoretical Model’s stages of change and how they apply
to diabetes prevention and control on an organizational level.
- Use the Organizational Stages of Change Checklist to determine what stage
of change your organization is currently in.
Part B (Section 3): Community Assessment for Program Planning
- Discuss the importance of conducting community assessments for program
planning.
- Describe how to conduct a cultural assessment, and how it can help to plan
effective outreach strategies.
- Describe how to conduct a community resource inventory, and how it can
help to define potential partnerships for developing a diabetes prevention
and control program within your community.
- Identify different methods of community assessments that might be chosen
to assess their community.
Part C (Section 4): Evaluating Your Educational and Screening Efforts
- Use evaluation to improve program planning and implementation.
- Explain the differences between formative, process, outcome, and impact
evaluation.
- List steps in program evaluation.
- List elements of an evaluation plan.
- Recognize how to plan and carry out a program evaluation to fit their
needs.
- Analyze how to ensure use of evaluation findings.
Part D (Section 5): Organizational Support
- Identify the importance of gaining organizational support for the
long-term health of their diabetes education and control program.
- Identify ways toe encourage support within the organization.
- Describe how to identify and cultivate program champions.
Part E (Section 6): Staffing Your Program
- Describe the different levels of staffing that are relevant to
implementing a diabetes program.
- Identify their staffing needs.
- Identify ways to develop and promote their diabetes program staff.
- Identify the federally mandated Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate
Services standards in health care.
- Discuss the role and training of community health workers.
Part F (Section 7): Building Community Coalitions, Advisory Committees,
and Partnerships
- Describe the value of forming collaborations within the community.
- Assess their organization’s capacity around the use of community based
approaches.
- Discuss basic definitions of, and differences between, coalitions,
community advisory committees, and partnerships.
- Implement recruitment strategies and maintenance strategies for community
coalitions, community advisory committees, or partnerships with
organizations.
Part G (Section 8): Funding
- Identify stable, ongoing funding as a key component of organizational
capacity and program success.
- Assess their organization’s financial capacity to support diabetes
prevention and control programs.
- Identify types of funding sources that could help support diabetes
prevention and control programs.
- Develop financial partnerships.
- Identify key staff members and activities to consider including in budgets
for diabetes prevention and control programs.
- Describe the role that advocacy can play in ensuring the availability of
funding.
- Develop a plan for increasing or sustaining funding.
Part H (Section 9): Community Education: Outreach and Inreach
- Define the Diffusion of Innovation theory and its relevance to planning
community outreach and inreach strategies.
- Identify different strategies for conducting community outreach and clinic inreach to various populations.
- Describe how outreach and inreach education strategies were tailored to
meet the needs of several different AAPI communities.
- Identify available community education curricula and health education
materials for AAPls.
- Describe how to select, adapt, or develop health education materials that
are tailored to the characteristics (e.g., reading level, cultural beliefs)
of a specific population.
- Identify different aspects of using the media that may be helpful to your
program.
Part I (Section 10): Making the Most of Organizational Reach and
Effectiveness Through Marketing
- State the value of marketing support for public health initiatives.
- Discuss how marketing fits into the structure of an organization, based on
the goals of the organization.
- Build practical and measurable objectives and strategies to drive
marketing programs.
- Begin developing a positioning statement and a brand identity for an
organization.
- Describe the various types of media outlets that can be used in a
marketing effort.
- Identify easy-to-access tools that local public health professionals can
use to plan and carry out marketing programs.
Target Audiences
The target audiences that may most benefit from these materials include
newly formed AAPI organizations that are working on staffing, obtaining
funding, and assessing the health status of their community, as well as
older, long-established AAPI organizations, can use this comprehensive tool
kit to expand their reach and effectiveness in their community.
Developers/Authors
Nia Aitaoto, MPH, MS
Maria-Elena Avila Toledo, MPA
Aurora Cudal
Jeffrey B. Caballero, MPH
Tele Frost-Hill, RN, FNP
Wilfred Fujimoto, MD
Sam Gerber, MS, RD
Joseph Humphry, MD
Theanvy Kuoch, MA, LPC
Kenny Kwong, PhD, LMSW
Man-Ja Lee, RN, BSN
Mele Look, MBA
Melinda Martin, MPH
Kate Moraras, MPH
Gil Suguitan, MPA
O. Fahina Tavake-Pasi, AS, BA
Robert Uhrle
In addition, the following NDEP staff at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American
Institutes for Research (AIR), Macro International Incorporated, and Fleishman-Hillard
(FH) contributed to the review and revision of these materials:
CDC:
Quanza Brooks-Griffin, MPA
Sabrina Harper, MS
Jane Kelly, MD
Sharon Morris, BA
Mark Rivera, PhD
Betsy Rodríguez, MSN, CDE
NIH:
Joanne Gallivan, MS, RD
Rachel Weinstein, MEd
AIR:
Mary Nishioka, MEd
FH:
Michael Greenwell, BA
Macro International Incorporated:
Doryn Chervin, DrPH
Jesse Gerwig-Moore, BA
In addition, NDEP would like to thank Carlo DiClemente, PhD, University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Psychology, for his review of
the Stages of Change Model within the tool kit.
Credits Available
The CDC has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 800, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC is authorized by IACET to offer
- .15 CEUs for Part A of this program (Sections 1 and 2): Introduction and The CARE
Model
- .15 CEUs for Part B of this program (Section 3): Community Assessment for Program
Planning
- .2 CEUs for Part C of this (Section 4): Evaluating Your Educational and
Screening Efforts
- .1 CEUs for Part D of this program (Section 5): Organizational Support
- .1 CEUs for Part E of this program (Section 6): Staffing Your Program
- .1 CEU for Part F of this program (Section 7): Building Community Coalitions,
Advisory Committees, and Partnerships
- .1 CEUs for Part G of this program (Section 8): Funding
- .1 CEUs for Part H of this program (Section 9): Community Education: Outreach and
Inreach
- .2 CEUs for Part I of this program (Section 10): Community Education: Making the
Most of Organizational Reach and Effectiveness Through Marketing
The CDC has been reviewed and approved as an Authorized Provider by the
International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET),
8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 800, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC has awarded .2
CEU to participants who successfully complete this program.
Instructions
for Obtaining Continuing Education Credit
- Go to the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online at
http://www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline.
If you have not registered as a participant, click on New Participant to
create a user ID and password; otherwise click on Participant Login and log
on.
- Once logged on to the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online
Web site, you will be on the Participant Services page. Click on Search and
Register. Enter the course number (SS1240A-I) or a keyword under Keyword
Search. Click on View.
- Click on the course title: Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A
Comprehensive Tool Kit for Organizations Serving Asian and Pacific Islander
Communities. Select the type of CE credit you would like to receive and then
click Submit. Three demographic questions will come up. Complete the
questions and then Submit. A message will come up thanking you for
registering for the course. If you have already completed the course you may
choose to go right to the evaluation. Complete the evaluation and Submit. A
record of your course completion will be located in the Transcript and
Certificate section.
- When asked for a verification code, please use the code provided at
the end of each section.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact:
CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online
1-800-41TRAIN or 404-639-1292
E-mail at ce@cdc.gov
The materials and continuing education credits are free. Requirements for
obtaining continuing education include reading Capacity Building for
Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive Tool Kit for Organizations Serving Asian
and Pacific Islander Communities, registering on the CDC’s continuing education
Web site (http://www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline),
and completing an evaluation form.
Release
and Expiration Dates
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Expiration Date: October 14, 2011
Disclosure
Statement
CDC, our planners, and our content experts wish to disclose that they
have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of
commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial
supporters, with the following exceptions: Jeffrey B. Caballero, MPH, for
honoraria for serving as an independent contractor and speaker for
Bristol-Myers Squibb; Steve H. Podowitz, for his work as a marketing expert
and author; and Wilfred Fujimoto, MD, for honoraria for serving on the
Advisory Panel for Eli Lilly Corporation. Our content will not include any
discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under
investigational use.
Link to Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive Tool Kit
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Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive Tool Kit for
Organizations Serving Asian and Pacific Islander Communities
Page last reviewed: March 20, 2009
Page last modified: March 20, 2009
Content Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Division of Diabetes Translation
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