Event Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Event Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Central

Description

Enrolling, engaging, and retaining people with prediabetes and diabetes in DSMES services and the National DPP lifestyle change program is a persistent challenge for care teams—made more difficult when community members face health-related social needs that affect health literacy, referrals, and program completion. This two-part series introduces design thinking as a practical approach to strengthen engagement and retention. Participants will learn to empathize with community members, define core issues, brainstorm solutions, and quickly test prototypes. Between sessions, teams will apply design thinking to their own health center’s challenges and return to set goals for prototyping, testing, and refining solutions.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Understand benefits of design thinking for community health
• Describe how design thinking principles can be utilized to address enrollment, engagement, and retention in DSMES services and National DPP lifestyle change programs for those facing health-related social needs challenges
• Apply the design thinking process to empathize with community members, ideate solutions, and prototype offerings to rapidly test ideas with community members
• Identify next steps for prototyping, testing, and refining strategies to improve engagement and retention within participants’ own health centers
  

Learning Format

Live Webinar

This is an ONLINE training, via Zoom.

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Faculty Disclosures

In accordance with Joint Accreditation criteria and the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies for the past 24 months.

Joint Accreditation/ACCME also requires that ADCES mitigate any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. The disclosure information is intended to identify any ineligible relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during an activity, please report it on the evaluation.

Relevant disclosures (or lack thereof) among educational activity planners and faculty are as follows:

Speaker

Angela M. Forfia, MA – None

Planner

Angela M. Forfia, MA - None

Patrick McMahon, MPH, BSN, RN - None

The approval of this educational offering by the ADCES does not imply endorsement of specific therapies, treatments, or products discussed in the presentations.

Financial Support

None

Registration fee: $0.00*

*This online course is FREE and reserved specifically for CARES: Cook County and its partners. If you were not invited directly by the host, ADCES reserves the right to deny or remove your registration.