Sunday, December 8, 2024
12/8/2024
The Fort Belknap Diabetes Prevention Program is a Community Directed Program that provides diabetes treatment and prevention interventions. Our goal is to increase knowledge about diabetes prevention through health education, physical fitness and nutrition. The purpose of the Special Diabetes Program for Indians is to treat and prevent diabetes in American Indians and Alaska Natives. In 1997 Congress passed legislation to create the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI). The SDPI has successfully implemented the most far-reaching innovative program to address the diabetes epidemic in American Indians and Alaska Natives. The program has helped improve the health and quality of life to thousands of American Indians and Alaska Natives. The successes achieved thus far represent only the beginning of what can be achieved when Tribal Government and Organizational Partners work towards the shared goals of a diabetes-free future. The Fort Belknap Diabetes Prevention Program is very community oriented and collaborates with a variety of programs to promote wellness and living a healthy lifestyle for children and adults. • The program coordinates with the teachers in the Hays Lodge Pole schools to promote School Health that includes physical fitness and living a healthy lifestyle. • The program conducts screening for the local school students on a yearly basis. Students are screened for blood pressure, glucose, pulse, BMI and acantheosis. Follow up and referrals are made, if students are at risk for developing diabetes. • Health screening consisting of blood pressure, glucose, pulse and BMI (body mass index) are available throughout the program year. The staff works with individuals to develop an exercise plan, if desired. • Community involvement includes sports activities, cultural activities, native games, nutrition education and promoting healthy lifestyles as a way to prevent the onset of diabetes. Community oriented activities are held throughout the program year. • Foot awareness education is to achieve better foot care for the diabetic population and for those at risk for developing foot related complications. • The program provides six Foot Clinics per month in each community where the community members receive foot care and foot exams. Foot clinics are held each month in the communities of Lodge Pole, Hays, Dodson, and Fort Belknap Agency. Our target group is students in grades K-8 at Lodge Pole Elementary School, which is approximately 170 students. We chose this young group to start education and physical fitness regarding diabetes awareness and prevention at an early age. Students who is a high risk of developing Diabetes later in life. Most education will be provided in the school setting as well as events and reservation wide activities. Services are provided such as health screenings, foot care and diabetes education to individuals who are "at risk" for developing diabetes. The program follows the SDPI Diabetes Best Practice "Diabetes Related Education". This Best Practice is used to promote education and helps reduce the risk for developing diabetes and its complications. Individuals include nutrition education, physical activity education and other diabetes education. Our community population is 4,546, with 324 of those individuals being diagnosed as diabetics. Services were slowed the past few years, due to the world wide Covid-19 pandemic.
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