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Danbury applies for grant to start Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Program

Danbury officials are applying for a Preventative Health and Human Services Block Grant.  The $92,000 would be used to start a Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Program.  Health Director Lisa Morrissey says the outreach program would be to reach people not already in a prevention program.  She says in Danbury there are a lot more older adults, people who have limited English language proficiency, and people of African American or Asian descent.  Morrissey says they are underserved, and this grant would allow the Department to bring prevention opportunities directly into the community.  Morrissey says community health workers would go to cultural centers and churches to get people interested in classes that would be hosted at a couple of sites throughout the City.  Participants would need to meet certain CDC criteria.  It's an evidence-based program.

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