Together, we're aligning actions against diabetes, and engaging South Carolinians to lead healthier lives.
Vision
Winning the fight against diabetes.
Mission
To align actions against diabetes, engaging South Carolinians to lead healthier lives.
Overview
Diabetes Free SC (DFSC) is a long-term, statewide initiative that aims to transform the health of South Carolinians. We have a particular emphasis on promoting equity and reducing disparities in access and quality of diabetes prevention, education and care. Launched in 2020, this effort supports and aligns efforts against diabetes to gain efficiencies of scale and foster collaboration.
DFSC aims for statewide, population-level change through innovative strategies that take advantage of new technologies. Since diabetes does silent damage to the human body over years or decades, we focus on early interventions to prolong healthy life. Funding for DFSC projects is from the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation; accordingly, there is a focus on health disparities and on improved health for under-resourced communities.
Strategic Directions
- Improve pregnancy outcomes and the health of women with diabetes
- Reduce lifelong risk of diabetes in children
- Prevent diabetes and its complications in adults
Guiding Principles
- Implement an innovative, multi-pronged statewide program
- Align, develop and bring to scale existing programs that have proven local efficacy
- Reduce health disparities related to preventing diabetes and its complications
- Focus on diabetes prevention
- Focus on early life intervention to prevent or mitigate diabetes and its complications
- Ensure rigorous data collection
- Plan for the sustainability of initiative efforts
FoodShare SC
Good, healthy food for all—that’s the mission of FoodShare SC. With support from Diabetes Free SC, this organization is expanding its efforts to ensure access to fresh produce.