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Best and Promising Practices in Diabetes
Prevention and Control

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Chronic Care Model
The Chronic Care Model summarizes the basic elements for improving care in health systems at the community, organization, practice and patient levels.

Guide to Community Health Services - Diabetes
The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community. Systematic reviews are used to answer these questions:

  • Which program and policy interventions have been proven effective?
  • Are there effective interventions that are right for my community?
  • What might effective interventions cost; what is the likely return on investment?
More than 200 interventions have been reviewed and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services has issued recommendations for their use.

CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC) Partnership Trust Tool
The PRC Partnership Trust Tool is designed to engage PRCs' academic, community, and public health practice partners in a dialogue about issues that foster and hinder trust. It allows partners to explore strengths, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop strategies for enhancing trust.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Model for Improvement, developed by Associates in Process Improvement, is a simple yet powerful tool for accelerating improvement. The model is not meant to replace change models that organizations may already be using, but rather to accelerate improvement. This model has been used successfully by hundreds of health care organizations in many countries to improve many different health care processes and outcomes.

Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease - Promising Practices
This site catalogues several programs in the state that are currently being implemented or have been implemented in the past with success. The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease divides these programs into one of three areas: Programs that Work, Programs with Promise, and Programs to Watch.

Toolkits

The Road to Health Toolkit (National Diabetes Education Program)
The Road to Health Toolkit provides community health workers/promotores de salud, nurses, health educators and dietitians with interactive tools that can be used to counsel and motivate those at high risk for type 2 diabetes. These tools will help reduce their risk for type 2 diabetes by encouraging healthy eating, increased physical activity, and moderate weight loss for those who are overweight.

ACT on Diabetes Toolkit (American Association of Preferred Provider Organization)
This Toolkit is designed to help primary provider organizations (PPOs) of any business model talk with key stakeholders about the importance of diabetes and identify resources for each audience to improve care quality. The toolkit is part of the "ACT on Diabetes" Campaign to help PPOs take Action, Champion better care, and empower patients to Take charge of diabetes.

BodyWorks (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
BodyWorks is a program designed to help parents and caregivers of adolescents improve family eating and activity habits. Available in English and Spanish, the program focuses on parents as role models and provides them with hands-on tools to make small, specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight.

Community Toolbox
"How-to" tools for community health and development, such as leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, and evaluation.

Diabetes Advocacy Toolkit (National Association of Chronic Disease Directors)
The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) Diabetes Council's Mission is to "define, prioritize, and address national public health diabetes issues and advocate for diabetes policy to support state and territorial DPCPs and other partners in order to reduce the burden of diabetes." This link includes the Council's new advocacy tool, links to shared resources, and more information about the Council and its activities.

Community Intervention Tools (National Diabetes Education Program)
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a joint program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health, and 200-plus partners.Partners work together to improve the treatment and outcomes of diabetes in individuals, families, communities, and health care systems.