Diabetes is the 3rd leading cause of death among Blacks and 5th among Hispanics.
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.
Faith-Based Initiative
The Campaign selected faith-based organizations as one of the first community initiatives of the Campaign. Faith-based organizations are trusted sources of information and activity in their communities and, if they are motivated and supported, they can influence their membership to improve their health.
In December 2009, the Campaign awarded a grant to The Institute for Leadership to advance one of NYSHealth's main objectives : to mobilize communities to spread programs that help prevent, identify, and manage diabetes in places where people live, work and worship. Specifically, this grant will work with faith-based organizations (FBOs) across New York. The Diabetes Campaign’s Faith-Based Initiative will target regions hardest hit by diabetes in New York State: the Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, Long Island, New York City, and Niagara County.
To see the materials for our faith-based campaign, please visit http://www.faithfightsdiabetes.org.
Tools
