Training and Education Programs

Mission
The Training and Education Programs Workgroup exists to identify barriers to access diabetes education for self management and to establish partnerships that will develop a plan to overcome barriers to access with a particular focus on minority populations that are disproportionately affected by diabetes and its associated complications.

Vision
All People with diabetes in the State of Michigan shall have access to culturally-competent diabetes education for self management.

Membership

Meeting Information and Updates

The Training and Education Workgroup set a goal to increase public awareness of the connections between diabetes and oral health and diabetes and pregnancy. The workgroup developed two tool kits to assist with dissemination of information.

The tool kits consist of consumer-oriented, written materials from various national, state, and commercial sources. Although there are many valuable resources available, these materials were chosen for their accurate information that is consumer friendly, current, free and available in English and/or Spanish.

Please use them to help educate and improve the health of people with diabetes. View the tool kit introductory letter.

Oral Health and Diabetes

1. Diabetes: Dental Tips, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, 2007.
• English
• Spanish
2. Diabetes and Oral Health, Michigan Department of Community Health-Oral Health Program and DPAC, 2009.
• English
• Spanish
3. Prevent diabetes problems: Keep your teeth and gums healthy, National Diabetes Clearinghouse, 2008.
• English
• Spanish

1. Gestational Diabetes: What you need to know, National Diabetes Clearinghouse, 2007.
• English
• Spanish
2. It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes, National Diabetes Education Program, 2007.
• English
• Spanish
3. Managing Gestational Diabetes: A Patient Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2003.
4. Risk Factors for Diabetes During and After Pregnancy, Healthy Mothers on the Move Project, 2009.
• English
• Spanish