Power to Prevent - National Diabetes Education Program - National ...

Purchase stickers (stars, smiling faces, and supporting hands, or any other stickers of your choice)
at a grocery, offce supply, or stationery store. Participants will be awarded one of these stickers
in each of three categories at every session from now on. Buy enough to last throughout the
program.
Estimated Time for the Session: 90 Minutes
Conducting the Session
Welcome
Welcome participants and introduce any new participants.
Say: “Welcome back to Power to Prevent. You are participating in a unique health program that will help
you and your families prevent and control diabetes. Today we’ll discuss how taking small steps will
help you and your families reach your goals.”
Session Overview
Say: “At the end of today’s session, everyone here should be able to:
Identify small steps that can lead to big rewards,
Explain that there are more than 50 ways to prevent diabetes, and
Use tools to help take small steps in food choices and in physical activity levels.”
Review of the Previous Session
Say: “In the last session, we started to learn about the goals of the Power to Prevent program. We also
learned about the impact that small steps can make in preventing or delaying diabetes, and we began
to use tools that will help you take small steps in food choices and in physical activity levels. It can
be discouraging if you try to see progress by weighing yourself every day. It’s better to keep track of
the day-by-day changes in how you eat and in what you do. Filling in the GAME PLAN Food and
Activity Tracker helps you see that you are making progress. This strategy worked for people in the
NDEP Diabetes Prevention Program, and it can work for you too.”
Check-In: Weekly Pledge and GAME PLAN Food and Activity
Tracker; Barrier Busters
NOTE: The check-in activity will likely take at least 30 minutes in this session because the process and the
materials are still new to the group. Some people may not have flled out their food and activity trackers at all and
will need some guidance and help with them. In future sessions, this activity is more likely to take only 15 to 20
minutes.
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