The Juntos Contra la Diabetes/United Against Diabetes (JCD II) project addresses the severe and unequal burden of diabetes in Hispanic communities in the United States through outreach and education activities implemented in collaboration with community and national partners, and as an active member of the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP). The JCD II has achieved significant goals during its five years of operation, including the production and dissemination of a special report on diabetes “El ABC del control de la diabetes” created in partnership with the American College of Family Physicians (ACP) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA); the production and broadcast of a five-minute television segment on diabetes prevention on the nationally syndicated NBC program “Hispanics Today”; the production of a six-minute video, “Preventing Diabetes in the Hispanic Community”; the creation and distribution of a bilingual diabetes self-management curriculum, “Living with Diabetes.”; trainings for providers and consumers on diabetes prevention and management using the diabetes curriculum; diabetes awareness and education through local and national media campaigns; discussion groups with Hispanic consumers to evaluate television, radio and print public service announcements (PSAs) on diabetes; and the strengthening of local Hispanic diabetes coalitions in five implementation partner communities around the United States. In February 2009, the JCD II project entered its final year and is focusing on expansion of its diabetes prevention and management trainings and publication of “The State of Diabetes Among Hispanics” report. The JCD II project is funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the National Diabetes Education Campaign (NDEP), a partnership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health, 1501 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 , tel. 202-387-5000