Tuesday, May 6, 2025
5/6/2025
Special Diabetes Programming for Upper Mattaponi Citizens - The Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe seeks to provide preventative diabetes care to Tribal elders located within the Tribe's IHS service area around King William, Virginia. Tribal leadership and staff have identified nutrition education and physical activity education as the best practices to be used in addressing rising rates of diabetes within the community. Tribal staff will target Tribal Elders (Tribal citizens aged 55+), and provide nutrition classes, physical activity classes, community gardening, and gym stipends. With these interventions, Tribal leadership and staff hope to decrease risk factors for diabetes, such as obesity and physical activity, leading to an overall decrease in diabetes diagnosis and on-set. Tribal staff will track required key measurements, such as percentage of body weight lost, improved blood pressure, and socio-emotional reporting, to understand the effectiveness of programming through a data-driven lens.
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