KSDPP's long-term goal is to decrease incidence of type 2 diabetes through short-term goals of increasing physical activity, healthy eating, adequate sleep and wholistic wellness.

Additional objectives are to incorporate Mohawk traditions and culture, promote community training, capacity building, and program ownership, together with academic training. ​KSDPP is a participatory research project, where community and researchers are in partnership, each with their own expertise. The community is represented through a Community Advisory Board, and the partnership guidelines are outlined in the KSDPP Code of Research Ethics.

Evaluation by KSDPP began by evaluating changes in the elementary school children in grades 1 through 6, for knowledge, perceived parental support, anthropometric measurements, eating patterns, physical activity, TV watching and fitness. Evaluation has also described the interventions and process changes in the schools and community, including evaluation of the health curriculum, the evolution and the community ownership of the program itself, and incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the community. In addition, a youth empowerment project, funded by the  Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), for those aged 14-18 years, seeks to better understand youth perceptions of lifestyle and diabetes and to encourage youth to become role models for diabetes prevention. After evaluating baseline knowledge, research results have also been used to develop the physical activity policy, a walking school bus and a sleep curriculum for the elementary schools.​

The goals for the KSDPP Centre for Research and Training in Diabetes Prevention, initiated by CIHR funding in 2001-2006 and continued to the present time, are to continue to:

a) understand the evolution of this health promotion program.

(b) evaluate how the KSDPP program is disseminated and adapted throughout a network of both English and French speaking Indigenous communities in Canada.

(c) offer academic training to masters, PhD and postdoctoral students interested in all aspects of community mobilization for diabetes prevention and health promotion.
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(d) offer training to Indigenous community researchers.