The overall goal of the project is to investigate the most effective way to use the existing strengths of a community to design community-based health-related programming, and to measure the impact and sustainability of such programs that are co-designed with members of local communities. Community participation is a core principle of primary health care. In particular, we will create a community-based program on self-management of diabetes, and for the first time at McMaster, key members of the design and research team will be members of the community itself. In addition this funding is supporting a workshop on patient and public engagement in research to be led by Dr. Patricia Wilson who is a Professor of Primary and Community Care at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England, and heads up the Kent Academic Primary Care Unit..There will be an open invitation seminar with the following learning objectives: a) Reflect on your past experiences with patient and public engagement in research. What did and did not work?; b) Increase your understanding about the value added by patient and public engagement in research and c) Gain knowledge about effective ways to engage patients and the public in research. This will be followed by a invitation 2 day workshop to include participation by the public, rsearch trainees, researchers, policy makers and decision-makers.