National Diabetes Education Program

The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is jointly sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. To go to the NDEP web site, click on www.YourDiabetesInfo.org*.

Purpose

To prevent or delay the onset of diabetes and reduce the illness and death caused by diabetes and its complications

Objectives

• Increase awareness and understanding of the seriousness of diabetes, its risk factors, and effective strategies for preventing diabetes and its complications among groups at risk.
• Promote effective self care among people with or at risk for diabetes.
• Promote a comprehensive, patient-center team approach to care.
• Promote effective lifestyle change for people at risk for diabetes.
• Promote health-care policies that improve the quality of and access to diabetes care.
• Reduce health disparities in populations disproportionately burdened by diabetes.

Partners

NDEP partners with more than 200 public and private organizations concerned about diabetes and the health status of their members. For more information on NDEP’s partnership activities, go to http://www.ndep.nih.gov/partners-community-organization/index.aspx.

Target Audiences

• People with diabetes and their families.
• People at risk for type 2 diabetes and their families, with special attention to African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, children and adolescents, older adults, and women with a history of gestational diabetes and their children.
• Health care professionals, community health workers, peers and other related health workers.
• Intermediary organizations, including but not limited to community organizations, media, businesses, and non-traditional partners.

Activities

• Create and sustain public and private partnerships with organizations concerned about diabetes prevention and care, including those working with populations disproportionately burdened by diabetes.
• Develop and implement ongoing diabetes awareness and education campaigns for health care professionals and people with or at risk for diabetes and their families.
• Identify, develop, disseminate, and evaluate evidence-based educational tools and resources, with an increasing focus on tools that provide support for behavior change and improved quality of life as the core of better diabetes outcomes.
• Identify, develop, disseminate and evaluate use of guiding principles that promote quality diabetes care to health care professionals.

Continuing Education Credits

The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) now offers continuing education credits for the following products:

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

The Road to Health Toolkit

Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive Tool Kit for Organizations Serving Asian and Pacific Islander Communities

Diabetes at Work: What’s Depression Got to Do with It?

For More Information

Visit NDEP’s Web site at www.YourDiabetesInfo.org* or call 1-888-693-NDEP (6337) to obtain diabetes materials. They may be downloaded, co-branded, reproduced, and distributed without copyright restrictions.

* Links to non-Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link.