Diabetes 4 Disability Training
Empowering support workers to deliver person-centered diabetes care
The Diabetes 4 Disability (D4D) course has been fully updated in 2026, setting a new benchmark in online diabetes training for support workers. Designed to enhance the quality of care for people with disabilities, the D4D course offers:
- Client Focus: Every lesson is tailored to the unique needs of the person with a disability, ensuring support workers deliver care that is both effective and safe
- Engaging marration: Led by EdHealth’s Director, Jayne Lehmann, renowned for inspiring quality health support for people with disabilities
- Practical strategies: Real examples with actionable strategies help support workers transfer learning directly into daily practice
- Customisable content: Courses are focused on either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, matching the needs of the individual to be supported
- Comprehensive medication coverage: Lessons include all diabetes medication options and delivery systems; tablets, insulin, and non-insulin injectables.
Online … but different!
Unlike generic online training programs, D4D is fully customisable. Each group of support workers have their D4D course matched to the diabetes type, prescribed medication, and equipment used by the person with a disability. This ensures support worker training is relevant, consistent and practical, enabling support workers to provide the best possible care.
Other advantages of this format include:
- Jayne is an experienced presenter, whose wealth of clinical and lived experience shines throughout her engaging presentations – this format gives more people the opportunity to benefit from Jayne’s specialist knowledge
- New support workers can be trained as soon as they join the team
- EdHealth provides a range of other NDIS services providing opportunities to create systems of support around a client, especially if they have complex needs
- Organisations can partner with EdHealth to introduce a step-wise approach to their training needs.
- Training can be supplemented, as the client’s diabetes medication and monitoring needs evolve.
EdHealth identifies a Group Leader to assist with the coordination of the group to do their training. The Group Leader can access information directly from the EdHealth learning management system that keeps them informed of the progress of their staff. They also gain additional insights into the capacity of the support workers in relation to their training.
Working in partnership with the disability organisations using the D4D course and associated services is what makes D4D the go to course for diabetes training. We assist organisations to achieve the NDIS quality and safety requirements linked to supporting NDIS clients with diabetes and assist them to problem solve issues that pop-up and reinforce the solutions to their support workers in the Online Skills Check sessions.
Course Features
- Enhanced capacity for customisation to meet individual needs
- Focused content for type 1or type 2 diabetes
- Lessons tailored to lifestyle management, health risks, treatments, and equipment
- Person-centered approach that sets D4D apart from other online training programs
- Quick and easy access to future training for new support workers and to maintain skills in the future
The D4D course delivers confident, knowledgeable support workers, ready to deliver high-quality diabetes care for people with disabilities.
Knowledge and Skills Evaluation
The online D4D course is accessible from anywhere in Australia, easy to connect to and navigate, with optional reading provided for those wanting more. High quality outcomes are achieved with knowledge reinforced throughout the course with interactive Pop Questions and Quizzes.
Practice Packs of equipment and procedures are sent to the Group Leader, who makes them accessible to use during the D4D course and Online Skills Check session. Specific strategies have been incorporated into the Online Skills Check to support the development of consistent skills across the group of support workers.
The Online Skills Checks (OSC) are conducted by one of EdHealth’s RN Credentialled Diabetes Educators. Information specific to the group’s client, based on their diabetes, disability, treatment and diabetes care recommendations are discussed during the OSC to further customise each groups understanding of their client’s needs.
IT support is provided to keep participants on track with their online learning.
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Course Content
Module 1: Diabetes Support
This module provides a foundation of understanding by explaining type of diabetes, how it is treated, ways to support lifestyle management of a healthy diet, being physically active and stress management. There is a lesson on diabetes tablets for those prescribed, including hypoglycaemia if their tablet poses this risk. To round off we cover the diabetes linked health conditions people with diabetes are at risk of developing and how to support ongoing screening and prevention strategies.
Module 1 is highly customisable, which is why the lessons below are not consecutively numbered. Lessons are compiled, based on the type of diabetes and medication prescribed. We do this using type 1 and type 2 focused versions of lessons and not including diabetes medications for people with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabets not using tablets.
Some of the lesson options:
Module 2: Glucose Monitoring
Lesson options:
Focused on glucose monitoring, participants learn how to accurately and safely ‘Check, Think and Act’ on glucose levels for the improved diabetes health of their NDIS participant. Practice equipment is provided to learn how to use the equipment.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)
Continuous glucose monitoring is used by most people with type 1 diabetes (via NDSS) and some people with type 2 diabetes, as Assistive Technology (funded by NDIS). Training is required for support workers to insert sensors, use and maintain the device and understand the glucose number, arrow and patterns identifiable when the data is brought together into reports. These lessons are added, as required.
Lesson options:
Module 3: Diabetes injectables
The National Diabetes Insurance Agency (NDIA) actively encourage the introduction of support worker models of care when a NDIS participant needs support to prepare, administer and/or self-inject subcutaneous diabetes injectables. This may include weekly injections of Ozempic (semaglutide) and Trulicity (dulaglutide), daily insulin or the emergency medication, GlucaGen HypoKit.
Non-Insulin Injectables:
Lesson options:
Insulin
D4D training gives disability support organisations the confidence to embrace an enhanced scope of practice for their disability support workers. Modules cover the knowledge and skills required to build the capacity and confidence of support workers to enable them to safely give, or supervise, a sub-cutaneous insulin injection and manage all aspects of their diabetes injectable care, including the identification, treatment and prevention of hypoglycaemia. Our system addresses the NDIS High Intensity Skills Descriptors, with the option of EdHealth Australia also providing a comprehensive Diabetes Management Plan covering the individualised advice for the client’s support.
Lesson options:
Re-usable insulin pens are also required by some people with diabetes. We can add in a lesson on these devices. The Novo Pen 6 is a Smart device and may be in place for its capacity to connect with other technology being used for your client.
GlucaGen HypoKit
The GlucaGen HypoKit is an emergency injectable medication support workers can learn to administer sub-cutaneously to treat severe hypoglycaemia in people on insulin or with metabolic conditions. Ambulance callout times have increased, creating a greater need for support workers to be trained to give this medication in the event of a severe hypoglycaemia event.
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Make the D4D course your training solution for greater peace of mind on the quality and safety aspects of delivering diabetes support.
Contact us and we will put together an individualised D4D course to match your client’s needs.
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