Winning at Work: Detecting, Preventing and Managing Diabetes for a Healthy Workplace

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Welcome to ADA's Winning at Work Web site. This site provides the downloadable resources and Web links needed to implement Winning at Work for your employees.

Ordering Winning at Work Materials

The following items are available from ADA's online store:

• Message in a Box Kit including posters, table tents and diabetes risk tests for your workplace. Additional table tents and poster "take-one" cards are also available.
• Could You Be At Risk for Diabetes? (bilingual English/Spanish brochure)
• Pre-Diabetes -- What Is It and What Can I Do? (English and Spanish brochures)
• Choose to Live -- Your Survival Guide
• Visit Planning Tool (English and Spanish)
• Latin Flavor Recipe Sampler (bilingual English/Spanish)

Winning at Work Binder

Select pages from the Winning at Work binder are available for downloading to support your planning and implementation activities. Items on this site will be updated on an ongoing basis to reflect changes in diabetes prevention and/or management recommendations. So check this listing periodically to be sure you have the latest resources available to your workplace.

Documents denoted with (PDF) require Adobe Acrobat software.

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Introduction

• Diabetes Facts (PDF)

Getting Started

• Winning at Work Program Overview (PDF)
• Winning at Work Online Resources (PDF)
• Weekly Activity Calendar (PDF)
• Workplace Planning Grid (PDF)
• Winning at Work Materials (PDF)
• Employee Program Announcement template (PDF)

Diabetes Awareness

• Sample Newsletter Article #1 (PDF)
• Sample Newsletter Article #2 (PDF)

Detecting Diabetes

• Could You Have Diabetes and Not Know It? (PDF, English)
• Could You Have Diabetes and Not Know It? (PDF, Spanish)
• Diabetes Risk Test email message (PDF, in Engish and Spanish)
• "Things that could Break Your Heart" ads in various formats
• "You could be living with diabetes and not even know it" print ad (PDF)
• Diabetes Risk Test Assessment Protocol (PDF)
• Diabetes Risk Assessment Results (PDF, in English and Spanish)

Preventing Diabetes

• Pre-diabetes -- What Is It and What Can I Do? (PDF)
• My Game Plan: Food & Activity Tracker (PDF)
• My Healthy Living Action Plan Worksheet (PDF)
• Eating Right: Give Your Body What It Needs (PDF)
• Your Guide to Eating Out (PDF)
• Healthy Variety Recipe Sampler (PDF)
• Is Walking Enough? (PDF)

Preventing Diabetes Presentation Modules

Preventing Diabetes Modules Overview (PDF)

1. What is Pre-Diabetes?
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   Download the following 5 WMV files that are incorporated into this MS PowerPoint Presentation.
   
• Diabetes
• Insulin: The Movie
• Type 1 Diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetes
• What happens in Type 2 Diabetes?




2. Cutting Calories and Fat
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation




3. Being Active
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation

Managing Diabetes

• Choose to Live -- Your Survival Guide (PDF)
• My Game Plan: Food & Activity Tracker (PDF)
• My Healthy Living Action Plan Worksheet (PDF)
• Eating Right: Give Your Body What It Needs (PDF)
• Your Guide to Eating Out (PDF)
• Healthy Variety Recipe Sampler (PDF)
• Latin Flavor Recipe Sampler (PDF)
• Soul Food Recipe Sampler (PDF)

Managing Diabetes Presentation Modules

Managing Diabetes Modules Overview (PDF)

1. What is Diabetes/Diabetes ABCs?
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   Download the following 5 WMV files that are incorporated into this MS PowerPoint Presentation.
   
• Diabetes
• Insulin: The Movie
• Type 1 Diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetes
• What happens in Type 2 Diabetes?




2. Getting the Best Care for Your Diabetes
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   
3. All About Blood Glucose
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   
4. Planning Healthy Meals
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   
5. All About Physical Activity
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   
6. Protect Your Health by Losing Weight
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   
7. Learning How to Change Habits
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   
8. Medications
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   
9. An Ounce of Prevention - Avoiding Complications
   Presentation Guide (PDF)
   MS PowerPoint presentation
   
   
10. Foot Care
    Presentation Guide (PDF)
    MS PowerPoint presentation

ADA Web Links for Your Workplace

Provide a link to the following diabetes.org sites from your employee website.

• BMI Calculator
  With the BMI Calculator, employees can enter their height and weight, learn their own BMI and whether they are in the healthy, overweight or obese range.




• Diabetes PHD
  Diabetes PHD (Personal Health Decisions) is a powerful new risk assessment tool. With PHD, employees can explore the effects of a wide variety of health care interventions, including losing weight, stopping smoking, and taking certain medications.




• ClubPed
  ClubPed can help your employees track their walking progress and provides a choice of two fun rewards: an Evolving Story or a Virtual Dog when goals are achieved.




• Diabetes Risk Test (in English)
  The Diabetes Risk Test helps employees learn about diabetes risk factors and determine if they are at risk for having or developing type 2 diabetes.




• Diabetes Risk Test (in Spanish)
  The Diabetes Risk Test helps employees learn about diabetes risk factors and determine if they are at risk for having or developing type 2 diabetes.




• Diabetes Learning Center (in English)
  For those recently diagnosed with diabetes, Diabetes Learning Center topics include Eating and Diabetes, Factors Affecting Blood Sugar, Checking your Blood Sugar, Your Diabetes Care Team, Emotions and Diabetes, and Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke.




• Diabetes Learning Center (in Spanish)
  For those recently diagnosed with diabetes, Diabetes Learning Center topics include Eating and Diabetes, Factors Affecting Blood Sugar, Checking your Blood Sugar, Your Diabetes Care Team, Emotions and Diabetes, and Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke.




• Link for Life featuring Type 2 Lou (available in English and Spanish
  Link for Life is an interactive program on diabetes and heart disease with practical tips and valuable information to help reduce the risk for heart attacks and stroke.




• monthly Choose to Live Challenge
  This section features a new timely topic each month to help your employees manage their diabetes.




• ADA Membership
  ADA members receive Diabetes Forecast, America's leading diabetes magazine, the annual Resource Guide for Diabetes Supplies and discounts on ADA publications including cookbooks, meal planners, lifestyle guides and videos and more.

Poster PDFs

The Message in a Box posters have been formatted as 8 1/2" x 11" dynamic PDFs to download and post at additional locations in your workplace. A space is provided above the ADA logo for you to add text information if desired.

• English version (PDF)
• Spanish version (PDF)