Resources to Help You Articulate the Value of Your Services

Insights, success stories and tips for communicating to administrators, prescribers and your local community

Value Toolkit

Showcase the value of your DSMES services. If you don’t, who will?

We’ve developed a member-only toolkit to help you effectively communicate the value of your services to three main audiences: administrators, prescribers and people living with diabetes in your community.

We’ve divided this into modules. Each one includes diabetes care and education specialists sharing their perspectives, success stories, lessons learned and resources.

We also invite you to share your stories for potential future additions to this toolkit. Log into your ADCES member account or become a member to view the sections.

Overview and Core Resources

It starts with our core documents, a published paper on how the DCES improves quality outcomes and a compilation of current research supporting your value. We also include an ADCES24 session where 3 doctors share their suggestions.

Impacting Administrators' View of DSMES

There’s an art to talking with administrators. You have to speak their language, lead with the data and create alliances with other departments. This module covers all that and more.

Generating Referrals

If you don’t have referrals, you don’t have a program. So many DCESs have figured out the “secret sauce.” In this module, you’ll hear stories of success, get lots of suggestions, and also learn about pitfalls to avoid.

Reaching the Community

There are so many ways to reach prospective patients/participants. It’s all about connections you make in the community, events you attend, and often your relationships with your marketing communications staff.

Helpful Resources

Access well-tested materials recently created by the CDC that promote DSMES services, a health literacy guidebook to ensure your materials are appropriate and effective, and guidance for creating content that utilizes person-centered language.

Conversations with Authors of the Value Paper

Thought leaders in the field review the ways a DCES can showcase their expertise beyond our 3 audiences. They talk about the role impacting cost, therapeutic inertia and cardiometabolic outcomes, just to name a few.