In the Kimberley, the Looma community asked Diabetes WA to provide some diabetes education. So this week we delivered the Aboriginal DESMOND workshop to a welcoming community who shared their diabetes stories. Thanks again to Boab Health Services for their support. The Aboriginal DESMOND workshop has been adapted from the highly successful DESMOND program to suit the Aboriginal way of learning. Diabetes WA is delivering twenty Aboriginal DESMOND workshops around WA this financial year, to have a

Today, the National Diabetes in Schools program launched in WA. The program, coordinated in Western Australia by Diabetes WA, will ensure principals, teachers and school staff will have access to better training, tools and support that will enable them to confidently assist and care for the 1200 WA students living with type 1 diabetes. A national survey of parents who care for a child with type 1 diabetes showed that more than three-quarters of them had visited their child’s school in the past y

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