News & Announcements
CDC Announces Recognition Program Launching in 2012
In early 2012, organizations that are interested in offering the National Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Intervention will be able to apply for program recognition through the CDC. There are many benefits to applying for recognition, including receiving technical assistance to enhance your program's impact, having ongoing access to resources through the DTTAC online learning community, being listed in a comprehensive registry of evidence-based programs across the country and the potential of receiving third-party reimbursement for program delivery.
CDC will notify you when CDC begins accepting applications for recognition in early 2012 if you are on the Diabetes Translation and Technical Assistance newsletter list. Contact dttac@emory.edu. You can get ready to apply for recognition now by visiting the "Get Ready for Recognition" section of National Diabetes Prevention Program's website to:
- Read the Program standards.
- Assess your organization's capacity to deliver the Lifestyle Intervention.
- Review the application form.
Also, you may now view portions of the official National Diabetes Prevention Program curriculum on the CDC’s website http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/prevention/ or under Program Materials at this I CAN Prevent Diabetes website link.
The number of Americans with diabetes rises to 25.8 million.
1 of 3 U.S. adults is at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Get the facts about diabetes in the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet.
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/factsheet11.htm
Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new estimates. Further, an estimated 79 million U.S. adults have prediabetes, a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be considered diabetes. Prediabetes raises a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Diabetes affects 8.3 percent of all Americans, and 11.3 percent of adults aged 20 years and older, according to the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet. About 27 percent of those with diabetes – 7 million Americans – do not know they have the disease. Prediabetes affects 35 percent of adults aged 20 years and older.
Other data from the fact sheet:
- About 215,000 Americans younger than age 20 years have diabetes. Most diabetes among children and adolescents is type 1, which develops when the body can no longer make insulin, a hormone that controls the amount of blood glucose.
- An estimated 1.9 million Americans were diagnosed with diabetes in 2010.
- Racial and ethnic minorities continue to have higher rates of diabetes after adjusting for population age differences. For adults, diabetes rates were 16.1 percent for American Indians/Alaska Natives, 12.6 percent for blacks, 11.8 percent for Hispanics, 8.4 percent for Asian-Americans, and 7.1 percent for non-Hispanic whites.
Additional National Diabetes Fact Sheet resources available at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/factsheet11.htm include:
- Estimation methods document
- A press release: http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2011/p0126_diabetes.html
- Power point slides, screen shots, and buttons and badges that can be downloaded and posted on your website with a link to the Fact Sheet
- Downloadable 508 compliant PDF file of the Fact Sheet as well as ordering information for print copies.
- Plus more. Follow CDC on Facebook and Twitter for additional updates.
Please utilize this comprehensive resource in electronic and print materials, scientific publications, educational tools, presentations and other products. Citation guidance is posted on the cover and last page of the Fact Sheet as well as posted below:
Citation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Diabetes Fact Sheet: national estimates and general information on diabetes and prediabetes in the United States, 2011. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011.
The 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet was prepared in collaboration with a number of agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, other federal agencies, and the American Association of Diabetes Educators, the American Diabetes Association, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.
I CAN Prevent Diabetes for Sustaining Organizations -Lifestyle Coach Training Workshop:
November 7-9, 2011
"If you have a family history of diabetes, you are at risk too.
Learn more about preventing type 2 diabetes."
-or click here to download the PDF file.
Celebrating a New Diabetes Prevention Partnership
Please help us welcome and support this new partnership in Minnesota!
- CDC, YMCA-USA and United Health Group (UHG) announced a major partnership to combat diabetes through prevention programs by offering and reimbursing for the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lifestyle change program. View Webcast of April 14 key note speakers at http://preventtype2diabetes.nologyinteractive.com
- UHG’s Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance programs will be introduced first in Minneapolis and St. Paul YMCAs for members of self-insured employer- health plans purchased from Medica. Later the program will be expanded nation wide. http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/newsroom/news.aspx?id=199e50a5-557b-4353-b96d-ff060fba10fc
- The YMCA of Metropolitan Minneapolis and YMCA of Greater Saint Paul that operate 22 YMCAs in the great Twin Cities metro and western Wisconsin will offer this group, 16 week DPP program. http://www.ymcatwincities.org/index.asp?pageID=28&newsID=1293&branchID
- View the New York Times article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/health/14diabetes.html?ref=business
- We are honored that this new national program is based in part on the work of the ‘I CAN Prevent Diabetes Program’ in Minnesota, first funded by CDC Steps to A Healthier Minnesota and Diabetes Prevention grants, and modeled after the Plan4Ward YMCA program in Indiana.
- We expect this new partnership will support the development of a sustainable, structured program with the national support of Y-USA ,UHG and the CDC
More than 1 in 3 adults and 1 in 6 youth in Minnesota have pre-diabetes or diabetes. http://www.health.state.mn.us/diabetes/diabetesinminnesota/factsheet.html
I CAN Prevent Diabetes programs will continue to be offered in non-metro and various non-Y affiliated community sites in the metro area. DPP programs are also offered at the Indian Health Board in Minneapolis and some tribes throughout Minnesota that are funded by the Special Diabetes Program for Indians Diabetes Prevention Demonstration Project grant from Indian Health Service. For about a list of program locations, go to http://www.icanpreventdiabetes.org/downloads/MN2010ICANPDPrograms021010.pdf