Question

“Hispanic Community in California with Diabetes”

Community resources -

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  Identifies a minimum of two community partners or agencies that can serve as resources for carrying out the proposed interventions.

• Includes an evidence‐based rationale for why the community partner or agency is the ideal partner for the proposed interventions.

Answer 1

-- “South Side Diabetes Project”

: officially known as “Improving Diabetes Care and Outcomes on the South Side of Chicago” is another example of a multi-component integrated intervention

: It includes patient education, provider training, and links these healthcare components to enhanced community-based support.

The South Side Diabetes Project is part of the Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes and is also supported by the National Institutes of Health.

The South Side Diabetes Project launched a “Food Rx” program where physicians write “prescriptions” for healthy food that patients can redeem as discounts or vouchers for fresh fruits and/or vegetables at a local farmer’s market or any of 9 Walgreens stores with a “food desert” designation .

  ''MFood Rx “have been distributed in clinics and community settings.

Patient-friendly educational tours of the farmer’s market and grocery aspects of the Walgreens stores are coordinated by the intervention staff and led by certified diabetes educators (CDEs), pharmacists, and trained community members.

Certified diabetic educators

: While Community Health Workers can play a vital role in patient education, the majority of diabetes education within health systems is conducted by clinic health educator staff such as certified diabetes educators (CDEs).

In attempt to combine the benefits of community health workers (e.g. cultural concordance, enhanced patient trust, etc.) and CDEs (i.e. standardized, certified training in diabetes education), one program purposely recruited ideal candidates from the local community and then trained them to become CDEs.

The team viewed this ‘growing our own’ strategy as one that helped to address diabetes health disparities.