This optional mentorship program partners experienced CDCESs with health professionals who are interested in gaining experience in providing diabetes care and education. The program helps them accrue experience in order to meet the practice requirement to sit for the CDCES exam. Visit the Mentor Tool Kit in your CDCES portal for information on the program.

Being a mentor is personally and professionally rewarding – plus your volunteer activities can be counted as hours toward your CDCES renewal. Consider helping a colleague obtain the DCE hours they need to become a CDCES by becoming a mentor. 

The mentor program began in 2010 in association with the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), now known as the Association of Diabetes and Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

CBDCE is grateful to mentor CDCESs and those with a mentor application under review. We thank them for their commitment to the specialty of diabetes care and education specialists. We also thank the organizations that employ our mentors for their support of CBDCE’s efforts to expand the number of CDCESs available to people with diabetes.

What some of our current mentors say about mentoring:

• “I feel honored to be a part of the mentorship program & look forward to providing wonderful experiences for those interested in becoming a CDCES. I think we have an opportunity to develop a networking group of CDCES Mentors in the future.”
• “I think it is a great program, and I hope more professionals take advantage of the program.”
• “Very rewarding to help a colleague advance their career.”

2025 MENTOR SPOTLIGHT AWARD
NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN

Nominate your CDCES Mentor. Click here to access the nomination form.
Nominations open from March 15 to May 15, 2025

 

The CBDCE Mentor Spotlight Award recognizes a practicing CDCES who has participated in the CBDCE Mentorship Program and has demonstrated outstanding mentorship to mentees interested in sitting for the CDCES exam. In order to qualify for the award, nominees must actively take part in the program as a mentor, maintain CDCES active certification status, and be in good standing. The nomination application must demonstrate that the mentor has displayed exemplary behaviors and characteristics in one or more of the following categories:
(1) Commitment, (2) Diversity, and/or (3) Career Guidance.


2024 Mentor Spotlight Award Winner.
Congratulations to Nancy Jerger, RDN, CDCES® as the 2024 winner for the 2024 Mentor Spotlight Award. Her committment mentoring individuals earn DCE hours to become a CDCES is remarkable!
Nancy Jerger, RDN, CDCES®

Mentor Spotlight Award winner announced at CBDCEs Leadership Reception at the 2024 ADCES conference in New Orleans, LA. Pictured from left to right: Mentor winner - Nancy Jerger, RDN, CDCES®, CBDCE Chair, Melanie Batchelor, MHS, RD, LDN, CDCES®, nominating mentee – Patrick McMahon, RN, MPH.


Past Award Winners:

2020 Mentor Spotlight Award Recipient: 
Ann Marie Hasse, RN, CDCES®

2021 Mentor Spotlight Award Recipient:
Deborah Redd, RN, CDCES®, CPT

2023 Mentor Spotlight Award Recipients:
Maryanne Strobel, RN, CDCES®
Catherine Rosenthal, RN, CDCES®