1. APPALACHIAN DIABETES COALITIONS CELEBRATING SUCCESS CONFERENCE Together on Diabetes Murray County, Georgia Esther Familia-Cabrera, Director of Community Health Workers Sebastian Gomez, Community Health Worker Northwest Georgia Healthcare Partnership October 9-11, 2013 www.nghp.org

2. Murray County, Georgia

3. Where We Started Our goals:  Seniors with uncontrolled diabetes  Adults with diabetes or prediabetes  Building our coalition

4. Barriers  Not knowing the community  High-level goals  People struggling with more than just diabetes

5. Where We Are Now  Making connections  More realistic goals  Aware of how community operates  Aware of the struggles many people are facing on a daily basis

6. Where We’re Going  Have a better idea of programs that are the “best fit” for the community  Family Matters  CDSMP  Bike Around Murray  Shopping Matters

7. Questions / Comments a vision of Claudia Lacson