SUGAR Helper Training

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SUGAR Helper Training

• Sharon A. Denham, DSN, RN

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First Things

• Provide a place(s) to hold SUGAR Helper training
  support meetings.
• Decide how to deliver a SUGAR Helper training
  program (4-6 sessions, 18 20 hour training).
• Set dates for SUGAR Helper training program.

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Getting Organized

• SUGAR Helper training program
• Review Diabetes Educator Manual
• Review SUGAR Helper Manual
• Schedule the program
• Advertise the program actively recruit
• Process for including volunteers

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Developing YOUR Program

• Curricula ideas (APPENDIX F)
• Include expert speakers
• Share in presentations
• Make sessions fun

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Main Training Goals

• Teamwork
• Basic diabetes knowledge
• Communication skills
• Empowerment

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Who to Involve

• Local experts
• Identify a diabetes educator to help
• Someone living with diabetes
• A family member of someone with diabetes

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Getting Meetings Started

• Name tags
• Ice-breakers

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Preparing for Your Trainings Sessions

• Room set-up
• Refreshments
• Speakers (local experts)
• Materials needed
• Manuals for everyone
• Other materials you plan to use locally
• Follow-up after education sessions

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Diabetes Today

• Connect family place

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Diabetes Today

• Problem locally in Appalachia
• Getting worse every year
• Problem we can do something about
• Risks for all our families
• Lack needed health resources in Appalachia
• We can make a difference

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Diabetes A Family Matter

• www.diabetesfamily.net

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Website Materials

• Program (what needs to be happen)
• Materials (items downloadable from website)
• Activities (specific things to do)
• Website resources

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Health Wellness

• Choosing Healthy Lifestyles

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SUGAR Helpers

• Locate information
• Literacy health literacy
• Empowerment
• Personal goals
• Make diabetes visible
• Family risks

Chapter 3 SUGAR Helper Manual
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Healthy Lifestyle

• Set personal goals
• Small steps today
• Wellness actions
• Healthy routines
• Become a role model

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Prevention
Taking Action Together
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Work with Others

• Learn about the community.
• What are local groups doing about diabetes?

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Prevention

• CDC Power to Prevent
• Set the example
• Work with family, friends groups

Chapter 4 SUGAR Helper Manual
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Diabetes Self-Management
Do it for your health
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Diabetes Self-Management

• Illness disease
• Healthy eating
• Be active
• Aim for small changes
• Include family
• Medical management
• Complications
• Balancing act

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Use Toolkit Materials

• Touch people where they live.
• Put posters in public places.
• Use fotonovellas.
• Share some brochures.
• Show the film.
• Distribute bookmarkers.
• Put on plays.
• Use Toolkit Activities

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SUGAR Helper Activities

• Getting busy Getting involved!

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Start with YOUR Family

• Identify who in your family has diabetes.
• Talk with them about what living with diabetes is
  like for them.
• Share some of the toolkit materials (brochures,
  fotonovellas).
• Get them involved in community activities.

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Ongoing Activities

• Plan for a second SUGAR Helper recruitment
  training program summer 2011.
• Sustainability
• ..ongoing support
• ..grant writing
• ..fund raising activities

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