Diabetes Today

Diabetes Today is a national training program developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and implemented by State Diabetes Control Programs that looks at diabetes from a public health perspective. The goal of the training is to create community-based diabetes initiatives that focus on the strengths of the community and empower local groups to work together to creatively improve diabetes care and education. The interactive program provides health professionals and community leaders with the skills needed to mobilize communities and to develop or expand appropriate interventions to minimize the problems caused by diabetes.

Major components of the program include forming a network with key leaders, assessing the needs, barriers, and resources of the area, developing local programs in collaboration with other agencies and on-going evaluation of the community’s needs. One outcome of this educational program is the development of a strategic plan that is community owned and culturally relevant to the local population. To date the Ohio Diabetes Control Program has conducted two training programs for professionals from throughout the state of Ohio.

This program was developed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Diabetes Advisory Board. For more information contact Diabetes Today at:

Diabetes Today National Training Center
C/o R.O.W. Sciences, Inc.
1700 Research Boulevard, Suite 400
Rockville, MD 20850

Last Reviewed: 07/01/2008

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