Links - Healthcare Professionals

American Association of Diabetes Educators - www.aadenet.org

This group can give you the name of an educator and resources in your community to help you learn about diabetes.

Diabetes Meal Planning in Multiple Languages - www.metrokc.gov/health/reach/diabetes.htm

Food guide pyramids which are culturally sensitive with both Engligh and other languages.

Health Professional Resources - http://www.dhec.org/

An educational initiative of the Institute for Continuing Healthcare Education. Keeping health-care professionals up-to-date on advances in our understanding of the multihormonal basis of diabetes, as well as related therapies currently in development, provides slide presentations, continuing educational programs, and interactive tools.

Mulitcultural Diabetes Materials - http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/patient_ed/diabetes/diabetes_index.html

Multicultural Diabetes education materials for patients and family members.  Class topics include basics of diabetes, nutrition, medicines, and glucose meters.  The materials were translated into a number of languages and are available as easy-to-print PDFs (each includes both target language and English)