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• After School Physical Activity

  This website has ideas, instructions, and videos of fun activities and games for students in grades 4-8.

  San Diego County Office of Education

• America on the Move

  Registration Required

  American on the Move is an evidence-based nonprofit dedicated to helping you take small steps and make small lifestyle changes for a healthier way of life.  This website will help you improve your health and quality of life through healthful eating and active living.  Includes an online community, articles on making healthy choices, and more. En español

  America on the Move (AOM)

• Behavioral Diabetes Institute

  The Behavioral Diabetes Institute is an organization dedicated to helping people with diabetes live long, healthy, and happy lives.  This website provides an array of evidence-based clinical programs, all designed to help people overcome the emotional and behavioral obstacles to living well with diabetes.

  Behavioral Diabetes Institute (BDI)

• CalorieKing

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This website is a comprehensive guide to weight management that helps you track your diet and change your habits.  In addition to its database of 70,000 foods, CalorieKing offers a food and exercise diary, practical help and tips, step-by-step guidance, interactive goal setting, and motivation and support from the CalorieKing community.  A program for physicians is also available.

  CalorieKing

• Diabetes Families

  This resource provides tools for behavior change and information on how to create new healthy habits as well as a network to connect and share with other concerned families.

  Diabetes Families

• dLife TV

  This weekly television series is dedicated to empowering the millions of Americans living with diabetes, featuring real people, real stories, celebrities, advice, and diabetes-friendly cooking.

  dLife TV

• Eat Right, Live Right

  This video program and podcast discusses dietary trends and guidelines.  The full program is available online, but CME credits are no longer available.

  Discovery Health CME

• Facilitating Behavior Change

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This online course addresses the challenges today’s diabetes educators face and provides a solid foundation of core knowledge that diabetes educators need to update or refine their skills, as well as strategies to deliver appropriate self-management training to their patients with diabetes.

  American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)

• Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget

  This toolkit assists parents in helping their children make healthy food choices and start healthy habits to prevent diabetes. The materials use Sesame Street characters to teach lessons on nutrition and healthy activities. En español

  PBS

• Health Literacy Video

  This video for physicians helps raise awareness and start discussions about patients’ low health literacy skills.

  American Medical Association (AMA)

• KidTribe

  Cost Associated

  This in-person program aims to fight the childhood obesity epidemic by fostering an environment where kids know it's hip to be healthy.  Nutrition and physical activity is at the root of each program, helping to build healthy bodies and healthy hearts.

  KidTribe

• Motivating Healthy Behaviors

  This 10-minute podcast for health care professionals provides tips for motivating patients to make and sustain lifestyle changes.

  American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

• NFL PLAY 60 Challenge Resources

  These resources help teachers get their students active, excited, and engaged in the NFL PLAY 60 Challenge. The resources include a teacher guide, lesson plan worksheets, game planner, classroom scoreboard, and certificate.

  American Heart Association (AHA)

• Overcoming Barriers to Better Fitness

  This podcast offers strategies for addressing patient and practice obstacles related to overweight and obesity issues.  CME credits available.

  American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

• Patient-Centered Approaches to Better Fitness

  This 21-minute podcast for health care professionals will help you learn new strategies to effectively talk to patients about nutrition, physical activity and emotional well-being.

  American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

• PRESENT Diabetes

  These prerecorded lectures from experts in the field of diabetes cover topics ranging from prediabetes to foot care to diabetic emergencies.

  PRESENT Diabetes

• Self-Management Support Training Materials

  This list of self-management support training materials provides health care professionals with strategies and patient tools to help patients adopt healthy behaviors.

  California HealthCare Foundation

• Side by Side

  These videos and patient guidebook emphasize the importance of the care team and highlights the benefits of working with a diabetes educator to help you examine your behaviors and develop management plans. There is a team of people—including family and friends—that can offer you guidance and support. En español

  American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)

• Sit and Be Fit

  This televised chair exercise program was developed by a team of medical and fitness professionals to improve the health and wellness of older adults, physically limited individuals, and those managing chronic conditions and chronic pain.

  Sit and Be Fit

• SparkPeople

  Registration Required

  This online program provides free nutrition, health, and fitness tools, support, and resources to help you reach your goals and live a healthier life.  Track your calories and exercise and connect with others like you.

  SparkPeople

• The Planned Care Visit

  This video and facilitator's guide demonstrates patient-centered self-management education and encourages health care professionals to follow up with their patients, showing that it does not take much time to get patients to self-manage effectively.

  Improving Chronic Illness Care

• Weight Watchers

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This program can help you lose weight by forming helpful habits, eating smarter, getting more exercise, and providing support through in-person meetings and online resources. En español

  Weight Watchers