Kidney Sundays: A Toolkit (A Guide for Faith-Based Communities on Making the Kidney Connection)

Increasingly, people are turning to places of worship to get accurate, useful information about issues that uniquely affect African Americans. Kidney health is one of those issues because kidney failure affects African Americans more than other groups. In fact, African Americans make up about 12 percent of the population but account for 28 percent of new cases of kidney failure. In addition, almost 80 percent of kidney failure cases among African Americans are caused by diabetes and high blood pressure.

Kidney Sundays is a great opportunity to raise awareness within your faith community about the risks for kidney disease and the importance of getting tested. This booklet provides faith-based organizations with the tools and materials they need to include kidney health messages in programs and events. The materials are easy to use in a wide variety of settings with your organization. In fact, they can be used by anyone who wants to have a conversation about kidney disease with their friends, family, co-workers, or community group outside of a faith-based setting. Help your faith-based family protect its kidney health. Help make the kidney connection.