Doing Your Part to Foster Racial Equity

The ADCES20 Inclusion and Diversity Subcommittee shares why it's important that diabetes care and education specialists look for ways to dismantle systemic racism. Discover 4 action steps today. Stay tuned as ADCES continues to identify and implement opportunities for change within the organization and larger diabetes care community.

How Can We Be Better Allies?

Supporting Black Communities Through Diabetes Care and Education  

• African American Women’s Hair Care: Overcoming This Barrier to Exercise 

• Checking the Pulse of the African American Population 

• Using Twitter to Understand the Experience of People With Diabetes 

Additional Reading from ADCES Journals 

• When It All Gets to Be Too Much: Addressing Diabetes Distress in African Americans 

• Health Disparities in Diabetes Education and Outcomes: A Goal Pursuit Perspective 

• Do the People We Serve See Themselves in Us? 

• Resilience-based Diabetes Self-management Education: Perspectives From African American Participants, Community Leaders, and Healthcare Providers 

• Individual-, Community-, and Health System–Level Barriers to Optimal Type 2 Diabetes Care for Inner-City African Americans: An Integrative Review and Model Development 

• Understanding Diabetes-Related Distress Characteristics and Psychosocial Support Preferences of Urban African American Adults Living With Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed-Methods Study