PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY

COOPERATIVE EXTENSION PROGRAM (PVAMU-CEP)

Mission: To deliver research based, informal education focused on identified issues and needs to Texans with primarily limited resource, diverse, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. 

Family & Consumer Sciences

Diabetes Education Awareness & Prevention (DEAP)

In 2007-08 PVAMU/CEP adopted a six-lesson curriculum called DEAP (Diabetes Education Awareness and Prevention) to be implemented to at least 100 Dallas county residents for each funding cycle, specifically African-Americans, Hispanics, elderly, and other limited resource audiences.

The program covered topics such as: Understanding Diabetes; Controlling Diabetes Through Nutrition; Get Up & Move (Physical Activity); Medication Management; Monitoring Your body; and Complications of Diabetes

To date, Dallas County Extension Agent has implemented the DEAP diabetes program to more than 150 adult residents in six locations throughout Dallas County. DEAP has successfully utilized local healthcare professionals and volunteers; conducted supplemental physical activities and healthy diabetic food demonstrations; initiated walking programs with pedometers; provided more than 32,000 handouts, newsletters, and flyers. 

Additional programming includes:

· Organ Wise Guys, a comprehensive nutrition and physical activity program that addresses childhood overweight and obesity to approximately 1000 Dallas County students;

· Mini-Society/Making A Job, a multidisciplinary entrepreneur program for youth. The program focuses on teaching youth to create jobs while working cooperatively and actively in problem solving—trying to find creative and workable solutions to the numerous challenges that occur in any society.

Contact:

Marvin Young
10056 Marsh Lane, Suite B-101
Dallas, TX 75229-6071
Phone: 214-904-3050 FAX: 214-904-3080
mryoung@ag.tamu.edu