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Our Whakataukī, gifted by Kaumatua Bill Wiki

He aha te kai o te Rangatira? He Korero, he korero, he korero - What is the food of the leader? It is knowledge, it is communicationThis whakataukī, or important saying or proverb, is for use in the daily activities of Diabetes Projects Trust.  It's a reminder of what the organisation stands for and how the team work in the community.  Acknowledgement and appreciation to Bill Wiki and Caran Barratt-Boyes at the May 26, 2010 meeting of the Board of Trustees.UPDATE 2022 - as our environ...

Presentation NZSSD 2010 - Gardens4Health - a new initiative in Diabetes prevention

 Taking the concept of gardening to improve health and prevent diabetes into a scientific diabetes conference.    This presentation was written by Kate Smallman, Richard Main and Karen Pickering, and presented to the audience of clinicians, patients and others associated with diabetes in New Zealand at the 2010 New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes meeting.   Download the full presentation in PDF form at the link below....

Poster at NZSSD - Students should be an asset, but that's not how they are treated in health

This collaborative poster between MIT and Diabetes Projects Trust has been presented at the 2010 NZSSD conference.   Our organisation thrives on working with students, they learn from us, we learn from them.    We had a joint poster at the NZSSD conference describing nursing student concerns and experience as well as the literature around the topic.   Poster by Karen Pickering, Diane Bermingham, Stefanie Johnston and Helen Scott.Abstract text below:A WORD ABOUT STUD...

In the News - Board Member Dr Faye Clark leading by example

"It’s about completing not competing, it’s about getting fit and active and having fun," says DPT Board member Faye Clarke and well known GP (retired) around the Otara area.  Faye is out showing others how to 'walk the talk' when it comings to being active for health after having been participating in duathlons around Auckland.  There are some encouraging words of wisdom for those of us who are finding too many reasons not to get active in this article here by Nicola Williams for S...

2010 QSM for past Board Member and Otara stalwart Olivia James

Olivia James has been a familiar face and tireless worker around Otara and South Auckland for many years, more than 30 years it is reported.   The announcement of a QSM in the 2010 New Year Honours list for services to the community is very well deserved.Diabetes Projects Trust experience with Olivia has been as a long term Board member, she resigned from role in 2005.  On the Board, Olivia shared her deep understanding of the things that are important to local people and made val...

Presentation NZSSD - Workplace Wellness 2009

Presentation taken to the NZSSD conference about the DPT Healthy Workplaces programme funded by Ministry of Health. Diane Bermingham, co-ordinator for the programme delivered this to good interest.    Key observations made in the presentation included that chronic disease such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma far exceeds accidents as the cause of reduced productivity.  That addressing diet, physical activity, and smoking has the potential to reduce the rates of chron...

Poster - Cook'n Kiwi - Middlemore Sciencefest 2009

Poster put together about the Cookn'Kiwi healthy eating on a budget programme and displayed at the 2009 Middlemore Sciencefest.    Authors Karen Pickering, Kate Smallman, Lesley Sanderson.    ...

Poster - Healthy Tuckshop Model IDF 2009

This poster presented at the IDF in 2009.   The Healthy Tuckshops framework story has been long on convoluted, with work starting in select schools in South Auckland in 2005  with a resource designed using best practice, research, and hard experience in the real world of local schools.   Involved were the DHB, the Lets Beat Diabetes programme, and Diabetes Projects Trust.   Within the story also came a change to guidelines for schools (National Administration G...

Push-Play with Timmy

The team gets out in Otara with Timmy whenever they can as part of a collaborative initiative with the Council to increase activity during the day in the local area.    Meeting up in the Town centre then heading off for a walk and some stretching.  Who knew there was a spacious park-like area behind the rugby club, and the walkway along the river is a great place to escape to for a walk.   Push-Play!...

Diabetes and Prevention Resources

These resources are the result of collaboration with a range of people and organisations. Please see the details on the resource.  Below are samples of posters for use in schools to support messages being provided by GetWize2Health healthy schools and other health promotion programmes (Lets Beat Diabetes supported), a comic format aimed at giving basic messages about a young boy with diabetes (Tama's big day), one pagers for preventing type 2 diabetes and basic healthy living tips with type...

Schools Poster presented at Middlemore Science Fest

A poster describing the DIY schools programme was taken to the Middlemore Sciencefest, held at the Vodafone events centre, by Karen Pickering, Kate Smallman, Lama Saga and Rachel Rix-Trott.   This programme has been delivered into 4 secondary schools for the last 4 years with funding from CMDHB, and to make it sustainable a DIY kit was designed with help from funding from MOH.    It has been tested successfully and now in 9 schools, and been used as the basis for the Diabetes...

Congratulations Kate on the People's Choice award at Science Fest!

Well done Kate Smallman on firstly getting a presentation accepted at the Counties Manukau Science Fest, this one on the newly released Shop for your Life DVD with resources in support, but also gaining the Peoples Choice award....

Presentation at NZSSD 2008 - Three way collaboration between very different organisations

A presentation at NZSSD in Dunedin delivered by Karen as part of a collaborative effort between DPT, CCRep and MIT looking at bringing different skills to evaluation of existing programmes run by DPT.Abstract text:WHEN TERTIARY EDUCATION MEETS COMMUNITY SERVICE DELIVERY MEETS THE ARCANE ART OF RESEARCH Karen Pickering1, Diane Bermingham1, Kate Smallman1, Helen Scott2, Stuart Ryan31 Diabetes Projects Trust(DPT), 2 Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT), 3 Centre for Clinical Research and effe...

NZSSD Posters for 2007

A successful trip to the NZSSD (New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes) conference for the DPT Team.   Holding the posters, left to right, are Board members  Henry Van der Heijden, John Baker, Pamela Tregonning, Tom Robinson, Faye Clark and Ngatai Smith.  Two posters are on the schools programme GetWize2Health (cartoon work originals by artist Ant Sang), and one is on a train-the-trainer programme for health workers and health professionals.  ...

RIP Dr David Scott - Leading figure in Diabetes passes away

A key figure in the New Zealand diabetes scene, Dr David Scott, passed away in March 2007 at the age of 77.   Christchurch born, Dr Scott's chosen profession of medicine started at Otago Medical school, and he had further education and experience in Europe, the US and Australia. He had many roles relating to his specialty interest of diabetes, including being President of the NZSSD for a time. Dr Scott was for many years a well known figure at Auckland University and around Middle...

Poster - Two organisations collaborating to prevent diabetes and obesity in Youth - NZSSD conference 2007

Diabetes Projects Trust always takes the opportunity to work with other organisations, that extends to programme design, and taking the results to deliver a shared presentation at a conference.   This poster accepted and presented to the NZSSD conference for 2007.   It describes the collaborative efforts and joint activity between our two community based organisations.   The abstract text is as follows:2 ORGANISATIONS COLLABORATING TO PREVENT DIABETES & OBESITY ...

Publication - DCSS - Ethnic Differences in Type 2 diabetes care and outcomes

This Paper published in NZ Medical Journal by Tom Robinson from DCSS data available at the time.   Māori and Pacific people with diabetes who attend a regular GP had a higher average number of consultations than Europeans and were likely as Europeans to have undergone important regular examinations and investigations. Māori were more likely than Europeans to be on some treatments. However, Māori and Pacific people were more likely to have a range of adverse risk factors for dia...

Publication - Epidemiology of diabetes in NZ - a 2006 revisit to 1996 work

NZMJ publication from David Simmons and Grace Joshy titled "Epidemiology of diabetes in New Zealand: revisit to a changing landscape.   This paper revisits/follows up on earlier work regarding the impact of diabetes in New Zealand and concludes a strategic plan needs to be agreed nationally and implemented.   SADP (South Auckland Diabetes Project) study referenced.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16751823/...

Poster - Reducing inequalities in diabetes in Aotearoa-New Zealand, a model for NGO interventions

Poster by M Chatterji, Tom Robinson (pictured) and David Scott described as "an analysis based upon a framework developed by the New Zealand Ministry of Health".  Presented at conference in Australia....

Poster NZSSD - Roping them in - increasing GP participation in Quality improvement Audit

This poster presented to the 2005 NZSSD conference about the DCSS Quality Improvement Audit.  The poster described the audit and looked at barriers to participation and how to deal with the barriers identified.   Presented by Auditors Eileen Howard, Darilyn Bennett (pictured at conference) and Miria Cleaver....

2005 QSM for Kaumatua Bill Wiki

Kaumatua Bill Wiki received a very well deserved Queen's Service Medal for his long service to the community....

Award for "Stay in Touch" video

Diabetes Projects Trust's 2003 short educational film for teens, "Stay in Touch', has received a "certificate of creative excellence" at the US International Film and Video Festival.   The video tells the story of a 13 year old Sam whose body has just had enough of his lifestyle and decides to tell him all about it by sending him text messages. Congratulations Shirley and team.    View the video on our YouTube channel here...

Poster - ADS/ADEA - Youth - our work in schools

Karen and Kate took a new approach to their poster for the Australian diabetes conference in August.   Lots of colour and illustration, and a triptych design in order to share our experience of working with youth, including design of the GetWize2Health programme and specialty resources.    Authors Karen Pickering, Kate Smallman, Tom Robinson and Judy Rowden.   Original cartoon characters by Ant Sang....

Publication - Passport Study

Published in Diabetic Medicine, Volume 21 (3) - March 1, 2004, this study was to assess the efficacy using a 'passport' aimed at self empowerment and education in patients with poor glycaemic control.   The finding was that there weren't improvements in knowledge or self empowerment, however there was a small improvement in glycaemic control.   https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-new-zealand-diabetes-passport-study-a-randomized-controlled-trial-3nlkyr6NVR...

Publication - Reaching hard-to-reach, high-risk populations - pilot in Urban Marae

This paper in Health Promotion International, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2003, Pages 41–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/18.1.41, has the title "Reaching hard-to-reach, high-risk populations: piloting a health promotion and diabetes disease prevention programme on an urban marae in New Zealand ".    Written by David Simmons and Judith A Voyle from the then South Auckland Diabetes Project (SADP), now Diabetes Projects Trust (DPT), it describes a pilot programme involving partner...