Does your organization serve rural and/or African-American seniors who are living with diabetes? Looking for a no-cost way to better serve them? Consider hosting and promoting free diabetes self-management education (DSME) classes at your location.

atom Alliance has launched the Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) initiative in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee and is actively seeking partners to host classes. Senior centers, senior housing complexes, libraries, hospitals and faith communities have all volunteered space, but atom Alliance needs more sites to reach more individuals with diabetes and pre-diabetes.

Seniors will learn more about controlling, preventing or delaying diabetes. DSME empowers people with diabetes to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to improve the quality of their lives. Our instructors will use simple medical terms, props and pictures in ways that make learning fun. Students enjoy the classes and being with others who are facing similar challenges and emotions.

You provide the space and publicize the classes to your clients/members and the surrounding community; atom Alliance does the rest. Churches and senior centers are ideal locations; however, atom Alliance staff are open to teaching at a variety of locations.

For more information and to learn who to contact in your area, download this fact sheet
http://atomalliance.org/download/edc-participating-partners/

Anthony Culver, MS

Anthony Culver has more than 30 years of experience in not-for-profit communications and management – nearly half of that with Medicare’s quality improvement organization program. He is managing his diabetes, enjoys travel & films and is an occasional pulpit guest at his church.