North Carolina Diabetes Prevention and Control Branch: Small Steps. Big Rewards

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Prevention, detection and management for the individual, family, community and state

Community Model

Project DIRECT has a high level of community participation. The New Community Model (see figure 1) was developed in an effort to transition coalition and workgroup members into a larger Community Resource Team and away from the more structured role they had held previously. Individuals involved in the Community Resource Team provide community based leadership, expertise, and advocacy for planning and facilitating needed changes within the project, to accomplishing yearly objectives.

Project DIRECT Community Model

DIRECT seeks to decrease the health disparities experienced by the African American population living in Southeast Raleigh as related to Diabetes and its complications.

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Community Model