OVERVIEW

Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who typically are trusted community members and who possess a deep understanding of the communities they serve. They can help people with diabetes and their families learn how to manage diabetes and how to find resources in the community. Preventing Diabetes Complications: From Head to Toe will discuss the most common types of diabetes complications and review ways in which CHWs can intervene to help people with diabetes prevent or delay diabetes related complications.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Identify Diabetes Complications and their causes.

2. Recognize actions community health workers (CHWs) can take to prevent or delay diabetes-related complications.

3. List resources to share with clients/communities related to prevention of diabetes-related complications.

EXPIRATION DATE

November 1, 2025

Wandy Hernandez, CD/BDT (DONA), CLC, BA, CCE
Hernandez Health Partners, LLC

Betsy Rodriguez, BSN, MSN, DCES, FADCES
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention

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