Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative

The Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative is designed to provide a more comprehensive collaborative and integrated approach to decreasing Diabetes and its complications  among  Aboriginal peoples.
Diabetes is a lifelong condition where either your body does not produce enough insulin, or your body cannot use the insulin it produces. Your body needs insulin to change the sugar from food into energy.

• There are three main types of diabetes:
• Type 1, where the body makes little or no insulin;
• Type 2, where the body makes insulin but cannot use it properly; and
• Gestational Diabetes, where the body is not able to properly use insulin during pregnancy.   This type of diabetes goes away after the baby is born.

Through this regional Initiative, sponsored through the Flin Flon Friendship Centre, our Community Diabetes  Worker will be available to provide Diabetes prevention and education services to Flin Flon, Cranberry Portage and Sherridon areas.

For more information contact our
Community Diabetes Resource Worker at:
(204) 687-8858