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Welcome to the Diabetes Initiative Archive:

Diabetes Self Management in Real World Settings

The Diabetes Initiative was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 2002 to 2009. It focused on improving self management supports for adults with diabetes in real world clinic and community settings. For an overview of the initiative, click here. Download program Calls for Proposals: Advancing Diabetes Self Management, Phase I |  Phase II; Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care, Phase I | Phase II.

This site, archived in 2009, is a repository for program models, materials, tools, resources, and lessons learned over the course of the Initiative.

What you will find here:

 

bullet What is Self Management?
Background and framework for self management supports
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Advancing Diabetes
Self Management

 
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Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care

bullet Build a Program
Tools and key issues in self management
bullet Support your Program
Resources and tools for assessing, marketing, and sustaining self management support
bullet Program Models
Descriptions of 14 Diabetes Initiative demonstration projects and their materials
bullet Resources
Program materials, tools, presentations, records of Diabetes Initiative learning sessions and more
bullet Lessons Learned
Issue briefs, reports, articles, and book chapters developed from the Diabetes Initiative


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The Diabetes Initiative was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 2002 to 2009.
Archived in 2009, this site is a repository for information and resources gathered over the course of the Initiative.