Diabetes Empowerment Education
A six-week workshop that provides information and hands-on activities to help manage diabetes, and how to avoid diabetes for individuals who are pre-diabetic.
Diabetes Empower Education Program (DEEP) is a six-week workshop series, facilitated by a trained health educator, for individuals who are diabetic, pre-diabetic or are interested in gaining knowledge about the condition. Workshops are free and conducted in different languages. Groups meet once a week for 2 hours. DEEP was developed by the Midwest Latino Health Research Training and Policy Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The objectives of this program are to:
- Dcrease diabetes risk factors, including obesity and hypertension;
- Increase knowledge of diabetes and its risk factors;
- Increase self-management skills to manage stress, and to facilitate short and long term behavioral goals.
Topics covered include:
- Understanding the human body;
- Understanding diabetes and its risk factors;
- Improving physical activity;
- Managing health through nutrition;
- Identifying and preventing diabetes complications;
- Communicating with medical providers and managing medical care
- Managing stress; and
- Communicating with family and friends.
For more information, call the Healthier Living Office at (415) 550-2257 for the workshop schedule and to register, or email mlazzara@onlok.org.
To view the workshop schedule online, visit California Healthier Living’s web site.