Events

The Role of Community Health Workers in Diabetes Care and Beyond

December 03, 2025 4:00 PM - December 03, 2025 5:00 PM

Description

Event Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Event Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm EST

Please Note: All times are Eastern. This webinar begins at 4:00 pm Eastern / 3:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Mountain / 1:00 pm Pacific.

Description

Join us for an insightful webinar featuring key leaders in community pharmacy and healthcare, including Annie Eisenbeis (CPESN-MO), John Beckner (NCPA), Joyce Hoth (Missouri, DHSS) and Taylor Tovar (Missouri, DHSS). This session will explore the critical role community pharmacies play in improving healthcare outcomes, with a focus on the innovative work being done through the CPESN (Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Networks) model in Missouri. The webinar will provide valuable insights into how community pharmacies are shaping the future of healthcare through collaboration, innovation, and strategic partnerships.

Learning Outcome

Grant recipients and clinical partners will report increased knowledge in the ways that community pharmacies can enhance healthcare delivery and outcomes through building strategic programs, policies, and quality improvement plans in collaboration with state health departments and other external partners.

Activity Type

This is a knowledge-based learning activity.

Learning Format

Live Activity

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for individual or groups of diabetes care and education specialists, including nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, nurse practitioners, physicians, PAs, social workers, and other health care providers interested in staying up to date on current practices of care for people with diabetes and other related conditions.

Speakers

Joanna DiBenedetto, BS, MNM
Public Health Consultant
National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD)

Cindy LaFond
Executive Director of Health Interventions
The Granite YMCA

Lana Kunik
Director of the National PA Center for Diabetes Prevention and Education
The Sight Center of NWPA

Miriam Bell, MPH
Team Lead, National Diabetes Prevention Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Accreditation Information

In support of improving patient care, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)

The Universal Activity Number is TBD. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 1.5 contact hour(s).
This statement contains information provided to NABP from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) via CPE Monitor^®. ACPE policy states paper and/or electronic statements of credit may no longer be distributed directly to learners as proof of ACPE credit. The official record of credit may be located in the learner’s e-profile in CPE Monitor.

American Medical Association (AMA)

Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this activity for a maximum of 1.5 ANCC contact hour(s). This activity discusses 0.0 contact hour(s) of pharmacotherapeutic content.
The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 1.5 contact hour(s).

American Academy of PAs (AAPA)

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credit(s). PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)

CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 1.5 Continuing Professional Education unit(s) (CPEU) for completion of this activity.
Completion of this RD/DTR profession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60 minute hour = 1 CPEU. RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

Successful Completion

To receive a Statement of Credit you must participate in the full activity and complete an evaluation.

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists

To satisfy the requirements for renewal of certification for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education (CBDCE), continuing education activities must be diabetes related and approved by a provider on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers (www.cbdce.org). CBDCE does not approve continuing education. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers.

Board Certified Advanced Diabetes Management (BC-ADM)

ADCES is the administering body for the Advanced Diabetes Management credentials. Continuing education programs offered by ADCES can be used toward fulfilling BC-ADM Certification and recertification requirements.

Other Health Professionals

It is the responsibility of each participant to determine if the program meets the criteria for re-licensure or recertification for their discipline.

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:

Speakers

Joanna DiBenedetto, BS, MNM - TBD
Cindy LaFond - TBD
Lana Kunik - TBD
Miriam Bell, MPH - TBD

Planners

Joanna DiBenedetto, BS, MNM - TBD
Cindy LaFond - TBD
Lana Kunik - TBD
Miriam Bell - TBD
Susan Van Aacken, MS - TBD
Angela Forfia, MA - TBD
Lauren Hooper Richard - TBD
Aditi Joshi - TBD

Peer Reviewers

TBD

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

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

Pricing

This webinar is FREE.

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