title: Mobilizing communities: local applications of the Diabetes Today national training center project.
abstract: In 1992, the Division of Diabetes Translation developed the Diabetes Today program to train representatives of state and local health departments on how to develop, implement, and evaluate community-based diabetes prevention and control programs. This commentary briefly describes the evolution of the Diabetes Today program in the United States. The Diabetes Today program utilizes a training curriculum to increase expertise in community assessment; coalition building; adult-learn principle, program planning, implementation, and evaluation. The training curriculum contains four modules: defining diabetes and mobilizing a community response; assessing diabetes in your community; planning your diabetes program, and evaluating your diabetes program. Two versions of the curriculum have been utilized--one in English and the other in Spanish. This commentary presents two examples of Diabetes Today efforts--The Missouri Diabetes Control and Prevention (English) and the United States/Mexico Border Diabetes Project (Spanish version)--to briefly describe how this program planning, implementation, and evaluation model can generate a community response to diabetes.
authors.affiliation: Diabetes Today National Training Center Project, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
authors.forename: Marietta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Damond
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Winters
authors.forename: Leonard
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jack
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cropper
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Londoño
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stoddard
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D003479:Curriculum; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D012648:Self Care; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology