SEED - Sharing Experiences & Education on Diabetes

There is a significantly higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes for overseas-born people and women in many immigrant and refugee communities are twice as likely to develop gestational diabetes. Through our diabetes prevention health promotion work, the Multicultural Centre for Women's Health aims to turn these dismaying statistics around.

The Sharing Experiences and Education on Diabetes (SEED) Project Reports have spanned several years of work in bilingual diabetes prevention education. The pilot initiative-Diabetes Healthy Living-funded by the Ian Potter Foundation in 2008, led to further work being conducted for the Bilingual Health Educator Project, with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

The MCWH model of diabetes prevention education is now available as an education manual to assist other service providers in adopting a culturally appropriate model of health promotion with culturally diverse women.