Everyone is Welcome Here
IDEA Diabetes is committed to creating spaces where people feel respected, valued, and safe to explore what living well with diabetes can look like.
We acknowledge the lands and Indigenous peoples who have cared for them since time immemorial and honour the diversity of cultures, identities, and communities that shape our shared future.
Living well with diabetes begins with dignity, trust, and belonging.
Our work brings together people living with diabetes, healthcare providers, and communities to build practical pathways for living well with diabetes.
About IDEA Diabetes
IDEA Diabetes was created to support a beautiful and hopeful future with diabetes. Our work is grounded in the belief that care should begin with hope, possibility, love, trust, and respect.
We work alongside people with diabetes, healthcare providers, and communities to create welcoming spaces where stories can be shared and lived experience is honoured. From there, we explore practical pathways that protect blood vessels and support quality of life.
Drawing on many years of experience in diabetes care, education, and community partnership, our work helps strengthen knowledge, build local capacity, and support people in living well with diabetes.
Our companions and resources begin with your story.
Together we explore practical pathways for living well with diabetes — protecting health, strengthening confidence, and supporting a hopeful future.
Our Companions are supportive learning spaces designed to walk alongside you in your diabetes journey. Through short videos, reflections, and practical ideas, we explore together how to protect your health, your blood vessels, and your quality of life.
There are great possibilities, and you deserve the very best.
Let’s figure this out together.
Health Care Providers
We believe that hope is like a pilot light that lives inside each one of us. Even in our darkest moments, the flame is still there — sometimes quieter, but never gone.
Hope is an essential part of the way forward with diabetes. Healthcare providers can play an important role in protecting and strengthening that hope through respect, love, and trust.
Our courses, tools, and learning opportunities support providers in strengths-based approaches that help people live well with diabetes.
Each one of us, wherever we are, can make a difference — becoming flame protectors and helping support a beautiful future with diabetes.
Hope in Diabetes Model
We have designed a model for Hope in Diabetes which considers how to create welcoming spaces for knowledge exchange and building autonomy in diabetes. Everything we do is based on this model of equity, hope and possibility and we want you to join us in this vision.
Health Care Provider Resources
Our courses and resources support healthcare providers in building person-centred, strengths-based approaches to diabetes care that protect hope and support the best possible care for all people. Through workshops and practical tools, providers explore ways of working alongside people and communities to strengthen knowledge, autonomy, and wellbeing.
Podcast • Writing • Videos • Inspiration
Connect with Us!
We often say once you meet us, you’re stuck with us, as long as you like of course. We want to hear from you about what would be helpful to you.