2021 Diabetes in Special and Vulnerable Populations: A National Learning Series

This Fall’s national learning series will take a deeper dive into issues around evolving staff roles, patient-centered resources and health equity to address diabetes in health centers. This series complements HRSA’s Diabetes Quality Improvement Initiative: click here. You can also visit www.chcdiabetes.org for resources from our Fall 2021 series! 

Each webinar (listed below) will focus on specific strategies for developing, evaluating, and supporting effective health care delivery models designed to meet the specific needs of special and vulnerable populations. Coordinators will ensure that webinar materials are practical, providing information and enhancing skills directly related to the training recipients. Based on HRSA recommendations, future conversations will focus on health centers and incorporate how NTTAPs, PCAs, and HCCNs support diabetes quality improvement around various topic areas (i.e. food security, clinical guidelines, reimbursement, technology utilization, etc.)

Background: Diabetes affects more than 34 million people in the United States. Multi-tiered efforts to prevent, treat and manage diabetes are critical in reducing the burden of diabetes, particularly for special and vulnerable populations, which have unique characteristics that affect culturally and linguistically competent health care access and utilization. According to 2018 Uniform Data System (UDS), diabetes poses a unique challenge for the HRSA Health Center Program because 1 of 7 patients has diabetes and nearly 1 in 3 of those has uncontrolled diabetes.

To elevate the national conversation around diabetes, 14 National Training and Technical Assistance Partner (NTTAP) organizations formed the Special and Vulnerable Populations - Diabetes Task Force to engage health centers, Primary Care Associations (PCAs), and Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) to increase knowledge of effective strategies that address diabetes among people experiencing homelessness, residents of public housing, migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, school-aged children, older adults, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, LGBTQIA+ people, and other health center patients.

Session Dates/Times (ET)

October 20, 2021 @ 2pm ET: Webinar #1: Diabetes Continuum of Care: Evolving Roles of the Enabling Services Staff in Diabetes Management 

October 27, 2021 @ 2pm ET: Webinar #2: Diabetes Continuum of Care: Developing Patient-Centered Resources for Diabetes Care 

November 3, 2021 @ 2pm ET: Webinar #3: Diabetes Continuum of Care: Improving Diabetes Care and Health Equity in a Changing Healthcare Landscape

November 10, 2021 @ 2pm ET: Webinar #4: Diabetes Continuum of Care: Addressing Diabetes Management During a Disaster (in SPANISH) 

Intended Audience: Health center staff from clinical & non-clinical perspectives and from all levels of leadership; Primary Care Associations; and Health Center Controlled Networks.

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