SUGAR Helper Training
Sharon A. Denham, DSN, RN
First Things
• Provide a place(s) to hold SUGAR Helper
training & support meetings.
• Decide how to deliver a SUGAR Helper
training program (4-6 sessions, 18 – 20 hour
training).
• Set dates for SUGAR Helper training program.
Getting Organized
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SUGAR Helper training program
Review Diabetes Educator Manual
Review SUGAR Helper Manual
Schedule the program
Advertise the program & actively recruit
Process for including volunteers
Developing YOUR Program
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Curricula ideas (APPENDIX F)
Include expert speakers
Share in presentations
Make sessions fun
Main Training Goals
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Teamwork
Basic diabetes knowledge
Communication skills
Empowerment
Who to Involve
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Local experts
Identify a diabetes educator to help
Someone living with diabetes
A family member of someone with diabetes
Getting Meetings Started
• Name tags
• Ice-breakers
Preparing for Your Trainings Sessions
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Room set-up
Refreshments
Speakers (local experts)
Materials needed
Manuals for everyone
Other materials you plan to use locally
Follow-up after education sessions
Diabetes
Today
Connect family & place
Diabetes Today
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Problem locally in Appalachia
Getting worse every year
Problem we can do something about
Risks for all our families
Lack needed health resources in Appalachia
We can make a difference
Diabetes:
A Family Matter
www.diabetesfamily.net
Website Materials
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Program (what needs to be happen)
Materials (items downloadable from website)
Activities (specific things to do)
Website resources
Health &
Wellness
Choosing Healthy Lifestyles
SUGAR Helpers
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Locate information
Literacy & health literacy
Empowerment
Personal goals
Make diabetes visible
Family risks
Healthy Lifestyle
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Set personal goals
Small steps today
Wellness actions
Healthy routines
Become a role model
Prevention
Taking Action Together
Work with Others
• Learn about the community.
• What are local groups doing about diabetes?
Prevention
• CDC: Power to Prevent
• Set the example
• Work with family, friends & groups
Diabetes
Self-Management
Do it for your health
Diabetes Self-Management
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Illness & disease
Healthy eating
Be active
Aim for small changes
Include family
Medical management
Complications
Balancing act
Use Toolkit Materials
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Touch people where they live.
Put posters in public places.
Use fotonovellas.
Share some brochures.
Show the film.
Distribute bookmarkers.
Put on plays.
Use ‘Toolkit Activities’
SUGAR Helper
Activities
Getting busy… Getting involved!
Start with YOUR Family
• Identify who in your family has diabetes.
• Talk with them about what living with
diabetes is like for them.
• Share some of the toolkit materials
(brochures, fotonovellas).
• Get them involved in community activities.
Ongoing Activities
• Plan for a second SUGAR Helper recruitment &
training program summer 2011.
• Sustainability
…..ongoing support
…..grant writing
…..fund raising activities