Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach Chapter 9: ACommunity Education - Outreach and Inreach

Course Number: SS1240H

The goal of the Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive Tool Kit for Organizations Serving Asian and Pacific Islander Communities is to build capacity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community-based and clinic-based organizations in the areas of community assessments, evaluation, organizational support, staffing, building coalitions and partnerships, funding, community outreach/inreach, and marketing. Part H relates to Section 9 of the Tool Kit. Section 9 focuses on starting a community education program through outreach or inreach. It tells you how to use tools such as health education materials and the media (newspapers, television, and radio).

The remaining sections of the Tool Kit are available for credit as well. Please see SS1240 A - I.

TARGET AUDIENCE: The target audiences that may benefit mostly from these materials include newly formed AAPI organizations that are working on staffing, obtaining funding, and assessing the health status of their community, as well as older, long-established AAPI organizations, can use the comprehensive tool kit to expand their reach and effectiveness in their community.

MATERIALS: Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive Tool Kit for Organizations Serving Asian and Pacific Islander Communities will be available for downloading or ordering off the National Diabetes Education Program website at http://ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/catalog.htm#PubsOrg, or may be ordered by calling the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse at 1-888-693-6337.