Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness and lower-limb amputations.
Community Organizations
To reverse the diabetes epidemic in New York, health care providers, policy makers, and community leaders must work together to help New Yorkers prevent and manage diabetes. The Campaign is working with community- and faith-based organizations to implement and expand diabetes prevention, screening, and management and ensure that New Yorkers get the clinical care they need. The Campaign will initially focus on where people with the greatest risk for diabetes and its complications live and worship, launching initiatives among faith-based networks and housing authorities and later supporting worksite efforts.
The Campaign has gathered information and tools that community- and faith-based leaders and organizations can use to help improve the lives of their members with or at risk for diabetes. To access these resources, choose from Data, Tools, Models & Research, or Projects below.
For a tool that can be used to put data related to diabetes on a community-level map, click CommunityWalk.
Policy Headlines
January 22, 2010
Study that examined the state of the Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) workforce reveals an unusually small and unequally distributed CDE presence across New York State.
(See the attached PDF for a copy of the study.)
November 16, 2009
The New York State Health Foundation’s Diabetes Policy Center congratulates Monroe Plan for Medical Care for becoming the first plan to successfully complete the Diabetes Incentive Program Endorsement.
Tools
