Mission

"Assure and enhance access to quality health services and quality of life of persons at risk and with diabetes in Chicago Southeast communities through the establishment and institutionalization of a diabetes coalition of community residents, health and human services providers, and persons living with diabetes."

Goals

The main goal of the coalition is to reduce diabetes mortality, hospitalizations, complications and diabetes related disabilities among African Americans and Latinos living in Chicago's southeast side communities. In order to accomplish this, the coalition set the following objectives:

• Mobilize communities through the establishment of the Chicago Southeast Diabetes Community Action Coalition.
• Empower communities through participatory action research by conducting a comprehensive assessment about diabetes related issues.

Principles of Collaboration:

• Commitment to equity, collective decisions, and collective action
• High quality, ethical research and interventions
• Joint ownership of the data
• Collective interpretation and/or dissemination of results
• Welfare of coalition members - that is, no partner shall act in any manner that is considered detrimental to another partner
• Institutionalization of programs which benefit the community through pursuing new funding
• Challenging social and environmental inequalities that affect health
• Support for diabetes-related community changes, and actions that ultimately will lead to positive health and outcomes.

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