The Community Diabetes Education and Prevention Program or CDEPP is a  diabetes prevention program and health promotion program focused on  primary health prevention .  CDEPP began in 2003 and the program has been funded by the Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI), Health Canada until November 2009. 

NBAPC offers the CDEPP program to off reserve aboriginal people living in New Brunswick. CDEPP has offered many activties, events and sessions in the past.CDEPP activities focuses on  wholistic wellness, type 2 diabetes prevention  and the promotion of healthy lifestyle activities CDEPP will continue to offer opportunites for people to learn more about diabetes prevention.

The goal of any CDEPP offered activity is to help people learn about healthier ways to live.

Activities include:

• Physical activity sessions and events like soccer games, indoor ball hockey, walking challenges and medicine walks 
• PALS (Partners for Active Living and Support)
• Information about healthy lifestyle practices like stress management, healthy heart information, not smoking, healthy eating information sessions;  and presentations about  sugar found in beverages,  fast food facts, healthy food choices and portion control
• Cooking sessions and community kitchens and special community events
• Summer, Winter and Fall Gatherings
• Youth and Elder Workshops
• Grocery store tours
• Summer Day Camps
• School Presentations  and Health Fair
• CDEPP can help people who have type 2 diabetes learn more about their disease , what can be done to stay healthy and how to prevent complications
• CDEPP can offer one on one sessions to help people learn more about how to live healthier and prevent, delay or manage type 2 diabetes

Please contact CDEPP to provide an information session or activity in your community.

The overall goal of CDEPP  is to address the high rates of diabetes and its complications among Metis, off - reserve Aboriginal people and urban Inuit by promoting a culturally appropriate approach to diabetes primary prevention and health promotion programs.

CDEPP objectives include:

1. Increase awareness of diabetes, diabetes risk factors, complications and of the strategies to prevent diabetes and diabetes complications among Aboriginal people;
2. Increase practice of healthy eating and active living behaviours among First Nation/inuit and Metis; and
3. Increase ownership and capacity to combat the disease.

Small steps can make a BIG difference.

Check out the other pages and links to learn more about type 2 diabetes