1. Organizing A Diabetes Prevention Program for
African Americans called: The Power
Nour Abrahim
Serena Collado, Director
PURPOSE
To coordinate and organize material for an
educational 2 session, 10 week diabetes
prevention program for the African
American community
SIGNIFICANCE
• According to the American Diabetes
Association, compared to the general
population, African Americans are
disproportionately affected by diabetes
• Over 2.2 million African Americans
have diabetes
• 13.2% of all African Americans aged 20
years or older have been diagnosed with
diabetes and they are 1.7 times more
likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic
whites
METHODS
In order to proceed with coordinating,
The Power, I needed to obtain:
Location
• Cook Student Center, New Brunswick
• Somerset Family Practice, Somerville
Staff
• African American Dietitian(s)
• Nurse(s)
Promotions
• Flyers, agenda, emails, research, event
registration, meetings, letters
Educational Material
• Power Points, lesson plans
OUTCOMES
EVALUATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my internship
coordinator, Marsha Gordon and my
preceptors, Serena Collado and Karolina
Georgens for guiding me throughout this
internship.
• 25 distributed flyers
• 23 registered participants
• 2 Locations
• 2 PowerPoint presentations
• Agenda, pretest and lesson plan
LIMITATION
Finding an African American Registered
Dietitian in or near New Jersey
Find an
African
American
Dietitian
Collaborate
on Agenda
Plans
Buy
incentives
based off of
plans
Promoting
• Pre and post test knowledge and
health outcomes testing = satisfaction
process
• Tracking registration to determine the
dropout rate =recruitment and
retention process
Cook Student Center
Somerset Family Practice
Fig. 1 Future steps to take for the program