The following information emerged from community-based training that was reported in the Yukon First Nation Health Promotion Spring School Report, 2007. (please see Reports & Publications under Our Activities for the full report).

One of the recommendations from this training was for the development of community-based diabetes education materials that could be used by front line health resource workers. In response, dieticians from the First Nations Health Program and Skookum Jim Friendship Centre, along with a certified diabetes educator, the Council of Yukon First Nations and ourselves worked collaboratively produce the DIY: Diabetes Prevention Activities ~ A Manual for Everyone (2008), which is also included in the Reports and Publications section. Some sections of this Manual were incorporated into a diabetes prevention workshop for Vuntut Gwichin First Nation youth in January 2009.

A book chapter describing this project called The Learner Becomes the Teacher: A Community-Based Diabetes Prevention Training Programme for First Nations Health Workers in Northern Canada was subsequently included in the book Diabetes Prevention in Practice (2010), to share the work with others.