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Making an Impact with Diabetes HOW: Helping Our World
 Diabetes HOW: Helping Our World is the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute’s global community-based advocacy initiative to help improve quality of life for people with and at risk of diabetes. Diabetes HOW is supported by our partner organizations:
 The International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes
 The American Association of Diabetes Educators
 The American Diabetes Association
 Japan Association for Diabetes Education and Care (JADEC)
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Get Started
The first phase of Diabetes HOW focuses on children and their families. We have focused in different areas that need action. We have found successful models representing these efforts that have been implemented in communities around the world.
Get started! You can begin making a positive impact in your broader community, based off the successful Healthy Kids Smart Kids program, with the Community Action Plan below. Just follow the steps to help guide you and track your progress. Take a look at each model and follow the Community Action Plan to make an impact in your community: |
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Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle for Children in Schools
Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler, Principal of Browns Mill Elementary School in Lithonia, Georgia, saw that the children in her school were not getting the healthy lifestyle options they deserved while at school – so she did something about it – the Healthy Kids Smart Kids program. See what she has accomplished.
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