Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention - Leading the effort to treat and prevent diabetes in American Indians and Alaska Native

IHS Standards of Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Complete explanation of the IHS Standards of Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. IHS, 2003.
Available on IHS National Diabetes Program web page:
www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Diabetes/index.cfm?module=toolsClinicalGuidelines
Or call program office for copy: 505-248-4182.

Balancing Your Life and Diabetes - Curriculum

The 'Balancing Your Life and Diabetes' Curriculum is a series of 12 training modules to be used by health professionals to provide diabetes education in a one-on-one or group setting. The curriculum provides basic information about type 2 diabetes, diabetes self-care, and general health care practices. The curriculum contains 12 sessions as follows:

• Session 1: What is Diabetes?
• Session 2: Diabetes and Mind, Spirit, and Emotion
• Session 3: Making Healthy Changes
• Session 4: Health Eating
     Section 1: Introduction to Health Eating
     Section 2: Basics of Healthy Eating
     Section 3: Heart Healthy Living
• Session 5: Moving to Stay Healthy
• Session 6: Diabetes Medicine
     Section 1: Overview
     Section 2: Oral Pills
     Section 3: Insulin
• Session 7: Home Blood Sugar Monitoring
• Session 8: Knowing your numbers – ABC
• Session 9: Balancing Your Blood Sugar
• Session 10: Staying Healthy with Diabetes
• Session 11: Taking Care of Your Feet
• Session 12: Planning for Pregnancy

Balancing Your Life and Diabetes Curriclum - CD ROM

This CD contains the comprehensive curriculum which addresses the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and provides information about type 2 diabetes, diabetes self-management, and general healthy lifestyle practices.

Measuring Diabetes Care: Improving Data Quality and Data Use in AI/AN Communities

125-page report from a conference held in August 2002 to discuss methods to improve the quality and expand the use of healthcare data throughout IHS and AI/AN communities.

Youth Staying Healthy: A Type 2 Diabetes Curriculum for Teens - Binder

A curriculum to provide health professionals working with American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents, parents and other caregivers with a framework for diabetes education for adolescents ages 13-18 in a one-on-one workgroup setting. The curriculum provides basic information about type 2 diabetes and general wellness for adolescents.

NOTE: A CD ROM of this curriculum is included with all hardcopies.

Youth Staying Healthy: A Type 2 Diabetes Curriculum for Teens - CD

A [CD] version of a curriculum to provide health professionals working with American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents, parents and other caregivers with a framework for diabetes education for adolescents ages 13-18 in a one-on-one workgroup setting. The curriculum provides basic information about type 2 diabetes and general wellness for adolescents.

Teens Talk About Diabetes - DVD

A DVD video about four positive, confident, happy Native American teens who talk about having type 2 diabetes.

Youth Staying Healthy: A Diabetes Prevention Curriculum for Youth Ages 8-12 - Binder

A Curriculum to provide health professionals working in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities with a framework for diabetes prevention education for children ages 8-12 and their parents/caregivers in a one-on-one setting. This curriculum provides basic information about health and wellness, not about diabetes, for youth.

NOTE: A CD ROM of this curriculum is included in the binder.

Youth Staying Healthy: A Diabetes Prevention Curriculum for Youth ages 8-12 - CD ROM

A CD ROM version of the curriculum to provide health professionals working in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities with a framework for diabetes prevention education for children ages 8-12 and their parents/caregivers in a one-on-one setting. This curriculum provides basic information about health and wellness, not about diabetes, for youth.

Basic Approach to the Diabetic Foot

41-page booklet is intended for use by Community Health Respresentatives and health care professionals within the IHS, tribal and urban Indian health programs. This booklet contains chapters on Foot Problems, Foot Exam, Taking Care of the diabetic Foot and Patient with the Foot Ulcer. The appendix includes sample foot care clinic and home visit forms. IHS Billings Area Diabetes Program, 1995.

Healthy Eating Food Guide Handbook and Resource Guide for Health Care Providers

36-page resource manual designed to be used with Healthy Eating Food Guide Pyramid for Patients with Diabetes client handout. Includes the following sections:

• Diabetes Nutrition Education Priorities and Strategies
• The Healthy Eating Food Guide Pyramid for Native Americans with Diabetes
• Teaching with the Healthy Eating Food Guide
• Appendices

Honor the Gift of Food - Curriculum [binder]

16-section workbook contains lesson plans, activities and low fat/low sugar recipes designed to be used in the home setting. Commodity foods can be used in any of these recipes. Lesson plans include:

Learn at Home sessions, Working in the Kitchen, Keeping Food Safe, Baking Mix, Magic Mix,Food Choices, Native Food Pyramid, Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, Dairy, Fish, Planning Meals, Body weight-exercise, Feeding your Child.

NOTE: A CD ROM of this curriculum in included in the binder.

Portland Area Diabetes Program 1995.
Updated September 2010

Honor the Gift of Food - Curriculum - [CD]

A CD version of the curriculum which contains lesson plans, activities, and low fat/low sugar recipes designed to be used in the home setting.

Step-By-Step Guide to Medical Nutrition Therapy [MNT] Reimbursement - Updated 2nd Edition, April 2010

This timely guide provides registered dietitians and other health professionals with the information they need to obtain remibursement for MNT which will help increase access to MNT services throughout the Indian Health Care System. This guide reveals how important teamwork is to implementing remibursement - providers, administrators, and data entry and billing personnel are critical partners.

Balancing Your Food Choices: Nutrition and Diabetes Curriculum CD ROM

A supplement to the Balancing Your Life and Diabetes [BYLD] Curriculum that addresses nutrition and diabetes. This supplement is intended for use with the BYLD Curriculum.

Balancing Your Food Choices: Nutrition and Diabetes Curriculum -

A supplement to the Balancing Your Life and Diabetes [BYLD] Curriculum that addresses nutrition and diabetes. This supplement is intended for use with the BYLD Curriculum. April 2010

Beautiful Beginnings: Pregnancy and Diabetes Curriculum CD ROM

A supplement to the Balancing Your Life and Diabetes [BYLD] Curriculum that addresses pregnancy and diabetes, including pre-gestational and gestational diabetes. This supplement is intended for use with the BYLD Curriculum.

Beautiful Beginnings: Pregnancy and Diabetes Curriculum

A supplement to the Balancing Your Life and Diabetes [BYLD] Curriculum that addresses pregnancy and diabetes. Including pre-gestational and gestational diabetes. This supplement is intended for use with the BYLD Curriculum. April 2010.

MOVE IT and Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes School Kits

The purpose of the Move It! Kit is to encourage physical activity in the school setting to help reduce risk for diabetes among American Indian/Alaska Native youth. The kit includes fact sheets on diabetes in AI/AN youth, posters, and examples of successful school activities using Move It! materials.

Promoting a Healthy Weight in Children and Youth - Clinical Strategies

This IHS report outlines clinical strategies on five childhood obesity prevention and treatment recommendations for health care professionals in Indian Health Service, tribal and urban Indian health clinical settings. The report’s five recommendations are based on the best available clinical evidence regarding the prevention and treatment of childhood overweight.

Healthy Weight for Life - Action Guides

Promoting a healthy weight across the lifespan is critical to improving the health status and well-being of American Indians and Alaska Natives [AI/AN], to reducing health disparities, and to maximizing the limited resources of the Indian health system. Taking action now has the potential to help achieve the Indian Health Service’s mission of raising the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of AI/AN to the highest level.

Healthy Weight for Life: A Vision for Healthy Weight Across the Lifespan of American Indians and Alaska Natives, Actions for Health Care Teams and Leaders and its companion booklet, Healthy Weight for Life: A Vision for Healthy Weight Across the Lifespan of American Indians and Alaska Natives, Actions for Communities, Individuals and Families provide guidance for taking action to stop the obesity epidemic. Given the multitude of factors that contribute to obesity and overweight, there is no one single approach that will work to turn the problem around. That is why individuals, families, schools, worksites, communities, the health care system, Tribal leaders and Tribal organizations, and society all have a role to play. It is up to you to choose the role you want to play. Use the actions laid out in this booklet to chart your journey and draw on the resources listed in each Action Guide.

Remember that everyone has a role to play no matter how large or small. Working together, we can make a difference in achieving a healthy weight across the lifespan of American Indians and Alaska Native—now and for future generations.