Designed for participants with type 2 diabetes to enhance self-management skills. Participants create weekly action plans, share experiences, and collaboratively address self-management challenges.
Take Charge of Your Diabetes
Take Charge of Your Diabetes is an interactive workshop for people with diabetes or pre-diabetes and their caregivers. Participation in a workshop provides skills and tools to help you make meaningful and lasting changes to your health so that you can live an active, fulfilling life.
Workshops are also available in Spanish.
Duration & Format
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Six weekly sessions, 2.5 hours each (with a built-in break)
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Participate in person at community and clinical locations or virtually with technical support available
Topics
Nutrition, healthy eating and menu planning
Physical activity and exercise
Medication management, monitoring and foot care
Working more effectively with health care providers
Problem solving, decision making, goal setting and many more
Benefits
Helps to lower A1C levels
Increase physical activity
Increase confidence in managing symptoms
Decrease pain and depression
Less frustration or worry about health
Who Should Join
Adults diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes and their caregivers
Adults whose health problems have begun to interfere with daily activities
Adults who have had challenges following health recommendations