Table 2.

Collaborative Initiatives Between AADE and Individual Peer Support Communities and Members, 2015 to 2018.

Year	Initiative
2015	• AADE signs letter for support for initial PCORI pipeline proposal award for iDOCr (Intercultural Diabetes Online Community Research Council)—a collaborative group of peer support, health care, and industry representatives supporting research co-created between HCP and the DOC. • AADE invites members of PSC to participate in the newly launched AADE Diabetes Technology Workgroup.+
2016	• AADE partners with the College Diabetes Network to offer a mentor/mentee program. This program pairs students with diabetes pursuing a career to become a diabetes educator with an AADE member with the role of cofacilitators of the Member Affiliates Council (MAC). • AADE works with Children with Diabetes to offer an annual scholarship award given to an AADE member working in pediatric diabetes care to attend the annual Children with Diabetes Friends for Life conference.+ • AADE invites members of PSC to participate in the development of the AADE and ADA consensus statement The Use of Language in Diabetes Care and Education.19
2017	• AADE supports and coordinates a meeting between AADE, diabetes educators, and PSC leaders: Educators and Peer Support Communities: Working Together for the Good of People with Diabetes.*
2018	• AADE collaborates with Diabetes Daily to create a series of articles for their website based on the 4 key times people with diabetes should see a diabetes educator.^ • AADE collaborates with DiabetesSisters to promote diabetes education and educators through webinars and articles. • AADE offers financial support for librarian assistance for a scoping review on the evidence for the value of online peer support.

⁺Initiative has occurred annually since 2016.

^*Detailed in this publication.

^{^}Based on the joint position statement developed by AADE and the American Diabetes Association in 2015.²⁰