Coalitions and Collaborations
Peers for Progress is a program designed to create and deliver sustainable individual behavior changes to improve the long-term outcomes of people with diabetes and other chronic diseases. The goal is to identify, train and certify lay volunteers with diabetes to become diabetes mentors. These mentors will then assist other people with diabetes in better managing the emotional, social and daily self-care demands of their disease. Peers for Progress is sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Foundation. Partners include AAFP and AADE.
The National Changing Diabetes® Program (NCDP) is focused improving the lives of people with diabetes by creating change in the U.S. system of health care and moving it toward an ideal diabetes environment that fully supports all aspects of diabetes prevention, treatment and care. NCDP recently spearheaded the adoption of a National Diabetes Goal, which calls for all sectors of society to work together so that by 2015, 45% of Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes will know their blood glucose level and know the appropriate next steps to take to prevent or manage their diabetes.
NCDP is a program of Novo Nordisk. Partners include AADE, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, American College of Physicians, American Diabetes Association, American Optometric Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
The Diabetes Care Coalition was formed to increase awareness among people with diabetes of the serious health complications of unmanaged diabetes and the importance of the A1C test in helping to manage the disease. The coalition is currently working with the Ad Council on a large-scale awareness program. The campaign is spearheaded by the American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, with AADE and the National Council of La Raza.
Diabetes Advocacy Consortium
The Diabetes Advocacy Consortium was formed to define and document issues surrounding the current economic model of diabetes care. The goal is to pursue a series of changes to the reimbursement system, starting with a code for intensive diabetes management.