Coalitions and Collaborations
STOP Obesity Alliance
The Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance is a collaboration of consumer, provider, government, labor, business, health insurers and quality-of-care organizations united to drive innovative and practical strategies that combat obesity. The goal of the alliance is to go beyond awareness and consumer education efforts to identify and address systemic and cultural barriers that are failing to adequately support individual successes.
National Quality Forum
The National Quality Forum is a broad-based coalition of healthcare and community leaders united by a common interest in improving healthcare quality. The group's mission to the establish national priorities and goals to achieve the Institute of Medicine's aid to provide healthcare that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable.
Peers for Progress
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.
National Changing Diabetes Program
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.
National Diabetes Education Program
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a government entity within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seeks to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, promote early diagnosis, and, ultimately, delay or prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. NDEP relies on collaboration with public and private partner groups, including diabetes, health, and community organizations and associations to develop and implement its programs.
Diabetes Care Coalition
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.
Partnership for Prevention
Partnership for Prevention is a membership organization of businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies advancing policies and practices to prevent disease and improve the health of all Americans. The group seeks to increase investment in preventing disease and promoting health, and to make prevention a national priority.
Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease is a national coalition of more than 110 patient, provider, and community organizations, business and labor groups, and health policy experts committed to raising awareness of the number one cause of death, disability and rising health care costs in the US: rising rates of preventable and treatable chronic diseases.