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External Links

Virginia Healthy Pathways Coalition Schools Committee

Nutrition and Physical Activity Resources for Schools

Non Profit Organizations

American Diabetes Association (www.diabetes.org)
Offers information about diabetes for patients and health care professionals. Also includes a listing of recognized diabetes education programs.

American Heart Association (www.americanheart.org)
Provides information regarding heart disease.

American Association of Diabetes Educators (www.diabeteseducator.org)
 Helps locate diabetes educators near you.

BD Diabetes Center (www.bddiabetes.com/us/)
Offers excellent educational materials and especially good visuals demonstrating insulin injections.

Children with Diabetes (www.childrenwithdiabetes.com)
Excellent websites and very comprehensive index. This is a good resource to give parents of children recently diagnosed with diabetes. Provides excellent and accurate information; MD, CDE, and RD chats with patients about various topics. Sends a weekly newsletter with the most up-to-date information available on diabetes.

Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation (www.diabeteswellness.net)
This foundation offers a free diabetes identification necklace.

Diabetic Mommy Online Magazine (http://www.diabeticmommy.com)
Provides information for pregnant women and mothers with diabetes type 1 and 2. It also has information on gestastational diabetes.

Diabetes Monitor (www.diabetesmonitor.com)
This is a comprehensive website with current information and research.

Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (www.jdf.org)

Novo Nordisk (www.kwwd.com/kwwd/hp/nsi_home_v1.jspx)
Provides a comprehensive website with a variety of materials and interactive programs.

David Mendosa's Website (www.mendosa.com)
David Mendosa is a writer, who has type 2 diabetes. The information provided is indexed.

Multicultural Diabetes Materials (ethnomed.org/ethnomed/patient_ed/diabetes/diabetes_index.html)
These materials were developed at Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, WA) for use in Multicultural Diabetes classes for patients and family members. Class topics include the basics of diabetes, nutrition, medicines, and glucose meters. The materials were translated into a number of languages and are available as easy-to-print PDFs (each includes both target language and English). Several of the patient education handouts also include audio narrations that require software for listening.

NOAH New York State (www.noah-health.org)
This is a very comprehensive site on many health issues. Some information is also provided in Spanish.

University of Florida Healthy Meal Plans (edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_FY522)
This provides a good starting point for meal planning.

National Women's Health Information Center (www.4woman.gov/)

Virginia State Government

Virginia Diabetes Prevention and Control's webpage  (www.vahealth.org/cdpc/diabetes)

Federal Government

Centers for Disease Control, Diabetes Control Program (www.cdc.gov/diabetes)
Provides statistics and epidemiological information.

Food and Drug Administration Diabetes (www.fda.gov/diabetes)

Food and Nutrition Information Center (www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/index.html)

Medline Plus (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diabetes.html)
This is a detailed website that contains information about the latest research. It also offers interactive instructional tools available in English and Spanish.

National Diabetes Education Program (www.ndep.nih.gov)
This provides good information on prevention and diabetes. Offers downloadable handouts in many languages and information for development of programs and initiatives to prevent diabetes.

Diabetes At Work.org (www.diabetesatwork.org)
Provides overheads to be used in teaching diabetes topics and offers lesson plans in English and Spanish.

National Institute of Health National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (www.niddk.nih.gov)
 Provides detailed downloadable information on diabetes, complications, medications, management, and nutrition. May also order print copies of these materials.

Access to Care/Supplies

Eli Lilly     ( http://www.humalog.com/pdf/eli05cl204_yellowbook_final3.pdf)

Humalog-(http://www.humalog.com/pdf/hi-40774_glucagon_pt_ed_brochure.pdf_)

VNAA --(http://www.chronicconditions.org/ClearingHouse/g/?h=HTML/default)

ADA recognized Patient Care Programs

Spanish educational materials: