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

Project DIRECT

Project Direct

Project DIRECT was a large community-based intervention for diabetes. The project was conducted through a cooperative agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Wake County Human Services and the local community of Southeast (SE) Raleigh. It received funding from 1991-2008. Please click on this link for an overview of the Project.

Lessons Learned from Project DIRECT (Diabetes Interventions Reaching and Educating Communities Together) have been published in several journals. Some are shared with the links shown below and others are referenced in a publications list. Word icon