Project ECHO
2027 ECHO Diabetes
Diabetes Care, Community Health, and Climate Resilience Strategies for Supporting Diabetes Self-Management in Underserved Communities
Six free sessions in Spanish • Thursdays, January 14 – February 18, 2027 • 2:00 pm ET
Applications close Friday, December 11, 2026 — space is limited to 30 participants.
About the Series
MCN is pleased to announce our upcoming community of practice series, Diabetes ECHO 2027 for community health workers/promotores de salud, case managers, health educators, outreach workers, and patient navigators who work with health centers. This six-part, Spanish-language series will address topics relating to diabetes, including general knowledge, nutrition, mental health, complications, and more.
The ECHO Diabetes series consists of six 90-minute sessions, and for the first time, each session will integrate the effects of climate change and weather-related phenomena as it relates to successful Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES). Session topics include: a general introduction to pre-diabetes & overview of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D); mental health & chronic disease; complications, treatments & medications; nutrition & exercise; and gestational diabetes. Individual sessions will focus on those key elements that make successful management challenging within the specific session topic, and how social determinants of health — the environmental and social conditions that we are exposed to where we live and work — exacerbate successful control particularly in underserved communities. Participants will be provided with strategies and best practices to address the numerous challenges patients face as they learn to adapt to living with and successfully managing T2D.
Session Dates
Session 1: January 14, 2027
Session 2: January 21, 2027
Session 3: January 28, 2027
Session 4: February 4, 2027
Session 5: February 11, 2027
Session 6: February 18, 2027
Session Time
11:00 am PT / 12:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm ET / 3:00 pm AT
Duration: 90 minutes • Cost: Free for participants!
Applications are open through Friday, December 11, 2026.
Available in Spanish only!
Clinical Content Expert
Lois Wessel, FNP, DNP is an associate professor at the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine at Georgetown University. She is bilingual and is involved with numerous community and environmental health programs including the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Migrant Clinicians Network, the Environmental Health Research Institute for Nurses and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. Dr. Wessel received the GU Center for Social Justice Slevin Award in 2024. She was awarded the Jesuit Network of Nursing Programs Exemplary Faculty Award in 2025. Dr. Wessel's areas of interest include community health workers, Project ECHO, food justice, public health, and making the world a better place for everyone.
This project is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under award number 2023-67017-39626