We provide diabetes education to patients, family members and caretakers, and we offer inpatient as well as outpatient education. Through our program, people recently diagnosed with diabetes learn survival skills including:

- a basic intro to the disease process
- foot care eye and dental health
- meal planning and food label reading
- guidelines for sick day management
- medication information (oral or insulin)
- self-monitoring guidelines instructions on use of the glucose meter
- exercise to promote better control of the disease and improve well-being
- managing complications traveling skills
- intensive insulin management

The Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired, located in Madison, WI, is a private, not-for-profit community-based organization.

Our mission is to promote the dignity and independence of the people in Wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation and educating the general public.

What we do: legislative advocacy; vision services; speakers' bureau; assistive products (Sharper Vision Store); free white canes; computer technology, evaluation and training; and , web design services for accessible websites.

Low Vision Support Groups: www.wcblind.org/resources/low-vision-support-groups/