• This intervention was seen as a focus of community education.
  
• Increase education about seriousness/consequences of diabetes
  
• Screen for diabetes at the school site
  
• Teach Fast Food Nation in classes as part of a program that brings ethnic physicians into schools to work as partners and mentors with Middle School and High School Students
  
• Key Partners - schoolteachers/school nurses.
  
• Need to find school site champions.
  
• Need to identify ethnic physicians to get involved with schools.

Research into Prevention Strategies

• Importance of participative culturally competent research involving communities of color.
  
• Provide tools and designs for research.
  
• Collaborate with university researchers on design and funding.
  
• Collaborate with Community-based organizations in the design and funding of the research.
  
• Work with practicing physicians to get "real world" data. Students can collect data.
  
• Overcome literacy barriers.

Clearinghouse

• Culturally competent health education resources
  
• Information on community resources
  
• Clearinghouse of what everyone is doing with regard to diabetes prevention programs and resources.
  

Other Priorities For Action

• Diabetes screening & education in schools/clinics/worksites.
  
• Establish an "Investment Fund" for prevention.
  Key partners needed to initiate and sustain these efforts will include:
• Schools
  
• School Nurses & Teachers
  
• Health Departments
  
• Community-based Organizations
  
• Business Community
  
• Health Plans
  
• Academic Centers
  
  

• Ethnic physician organizations can take the lead in addressing cultural competency, both in terms of workforce issues and health information resources.
  
• Ethnic physicians can speak with a collective voice to those in power and authority about the health disparities associated with diabetes and approaches to address these.
  
• To maximize success in these prevention efforts, we need to expand vision the vision of ethnic physicians to include both focus on environmental factors that result in health disparities and the importance working with community members to address these disparities. NEPO can be the vehicle to achieve this expanded vision.