What is NDEP Promoting this Quarter?

Promotions Calendar

Find out what NDEP is doing to promote diabetes awareness and how our partners can participate.

February 2013	Print this month
All Month / February 14	American Heart Month and Valentine’s Day Use the following NDEP resources to raise awareness of the link between diabetes and heart health: Take Care of Your Heart. Manage Your Diabetes. tip sheet Making the Link between Diabetes and CVD radio PSA scripts Physical Activity: Practical Tips and Action Steps video You Are the Heart of Your Family...Take Care of It. tip sheet and flip chart presentation Help a Loved One with Diabetes tip sheet This Valentine’s Day, promote NDEP’s Help a Loved One with Diabetes tip sheet and You Are the Heart of Your Family...Take Care of It. tip sheet and flip chart presentation to help people support their loved ones with diabetes.
All Month	Black History Month Promote NDEP's 4 Steps to Control Your Diabetes. For Life. booklet. Promote NDEP's Family History web page to help people learn more about diabetes risk factors and why it's important to talk to their family about diabetes. Share NDEP resources geared towards African American audiences, including the Choose More than 50 Ways to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes tip sheet, Step by Step music CD, and Road to Health Toolkit and Evaluation Guide.

March 2013	Print this month
All Month / March 14	National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day Raise awareness about kidney health and diabetes by promoting NDEP’s Take Care of Your Diabetes to Keep Your Kidneys Healthy feature article, 4 Steps to Control Your Diabetes. For Life. booklet, and resources from the National Kidney Disease Education Program.
March 26	Diabetes Alert Day Encourage people to learn more about their family history of diabetes by asking NDEP’s 4 Questions Your Should Ask Your Family about Diabetes and taking the Family Health History Quiz. Help people at risk for type 2 diabetes take steps to lower their risk with NDEP’s Just One Step online tool. Encourage people to learn more about their risk for diabetes by taking the Diabetes Risk Test. Share NDEP’s Preventing Type 2 Diabetes: Maintaining a Healthy Weight and Preventing Type 2 Diabetes videos Use some or all of the NDEP promotional materials and offerings developed in support of Diabetes Alert Day.
All Month	National Nutrition Month Help people take steps toward healthy eating with NDEP’s Small Steps for Eating Healthy Foods, fat and calorie counter, and food and activity tracker. Share NDEP’s Healthy Eating with Diabetes video to help people learn about healthy eating to manage their weight. Promote NDEP’s Tasty Recipes for People with Diabetes and Their Families (Ricas recetas para personas con diabetes y sus familiares) and It’s More than Food, It’s Life: Recipe Card Set 1 and Set 2.

April 2013	Print this month
All Month	Minority Health Month Help promote NDEP’s Publications and Resources geared towards minority populations.
All Month	Foot Health Awareness Month Promote NDEP’s refreshed Take Care of Your Feet for a Lifetime booklet. This publication has been recently reviewed by NDEP for health literacy. Share NDEP’s Feet Can Last a Lifetime: A Health Care Provider's Guide to Preventing Diabetes Foot Problems.
TBD	Participate in NDEP’s Quarterly Partner Promotions Call. More information to come

May 2013	Print this month
May 12 / May 12-18	Mother’s Day (May 12) and National Women’s Health Week (May 12-18) Use the following publications and resources to raise awareness of the lasting impact of gestational diabetes on women and their children, and steps they can take to lower their risk for type 2 diabetes: NDEP’s Did You Have Gestational Diabetes When You Were Pregnant? What You Need to Know. refreshed tip sheet. This publication has been recently reviewed by NDEP for health literacy. NDEP’s bilingual fotonovela: Do It for Them! But Do It for You Too. NDEP’s behavior change video, "The Lasting Impact of Gestational Diabetes: Making Healthy Choices as a Family" Partner Promotional Toolkit – More information to come.
All Month	Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month Use NDEP’s Diabetes Resources Catalog With Special Resources for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders to find NDEP resources tailored to this audience. Promote NDEP’s Two Reasons I Find Time to Prevent Diabetes: My Future and Theirs and Take Care of Your Heart. Manage Your Diabetes tip sheets. Share NDEP’s “Preventing Diabetes for Our Future and Theirs: The Diabetes Epidemic among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders” feature article in your local newspaper or promote it in your organization’s newsletter or e-newsletter. Check out NDEP’s Capacity Building for Diabetes Outreach: A Comprehensive Tool Kit for Organizations Serving Asian and Pacific Islander Communities toolkit.
All Month	Healthy Vision Month Use NDEP’s Working Together to Manage Diabetes: A Guide for Pharmacists, Podiatrists, Optometrists, and Dental Professionals guide. Promote resources from the National Eye Institute.
All Month	Older Americans Month Promote NDEP’s It's Not Too Late to Prevent Diabetes tip sheet and The Power To Control Diabetes Is in Your Hands brochure to encourage older adults to work to manage or prevent type 2 diabetes.
All Month	Employee Health and Fitness Month Find presentations and handouts related to employee health and diabetes at www.diabetesatwork.org, a comprehensive online resource for the business community. Promote NDEP’s Small Steps. Big Rewards. Your GAME PLAN to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes (Mi plan de acción para prevenir la diabetes tipo 2) and 4 Steps to Manage Your Diabetes For Life booklets.

June 2013	Print this month
All Month / June 10-16 / June 16	National Men’s Health Month (All Month) / National Men’s Health Week (June 10-16) & Father’s Day (June 16) Share NDEP volunteer profiles: Haywood, David, and Sterling. Promote NDEP’s Get Real! You Don't Have to Knock Yourself Out to Prevent Diabetes tip sheet.

Featured Messages & Tools for this Quarter

Q1 Key Messages (PDF, 405K)

Messages for media outreach, Facebook, and Twitter

Just One Step

Change begins with just one step. This tool can help people break down their goals for making modest but important lifestyle changes into small, achievable steps.

Make a Plan

This tool can help people think about what is important to their health and how to make a plan to take small, but important steps to reach their goal.

Media Relations 101

This toolkit has tips on how to use traditional and social media to support your outreach activities.

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