Sunday, May 5, 2024
5/5/2024
Apache Diabetes Wellness Center (ADWC) provides health, wellness and fitness instruction to the 16,963 residents of the Ft. Apache Indian Reservation. Due to the incredibly high prevalence of diabetes, depression and the lack of available healthy food sources, the reservation is experience a high epidemic of diabetic patients especially after the pandemic. As a result there are a large number of deaths that are depression and diabetes related and a large number of patients on dialysis. Apache Diabetes Wellness Center is intent on providing intensive diabetes prevention intervention to a group of targeted individuals. In a collaborative effort ADWC will work with referrals from our local (IHS) hospital to target the individuals. Services will be offered to members, such as, nutrition classes, food demonstrations, physical activities, personal trainer services and services to the specific needs of the identified client. Participation is voluntary and benchmarks have been established and include promotional items for retention. Currently an established practice is in place of the Apache Diabetes Wellness Center. We provide daily classes to enrolled clients. Classes we provide are, Health Institute, Training for Life, Emotional Fitness, Dialectical Behavior (DBT), Breakfast Club, and newly added Conflict of Resolution. These classes are taught by our Behavioral Health Technicians. We also provide physical activities with these client’s by closing our fitness center for their personal use only. They do such as tracking with BMI’s, Treatment Plan, goal setting and have personal trainers on hand for their use. The practice of collection bi-yearly BMI’s has been ongoing for more than 5 years, and has established itself as a baseline. We expect to be able to compare these newly implemented services to this already established baseline to determine our rate of success and helping with a healthier living environment.
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