Diabetes Awareness Month is a perfect time to use your voice to push for policies that can save lives. The largest diabetes-focused organizations are set up so that you can easily start your journey in advocacy online, signing petitions and sending messages to your local elected officials. The organization claims that more than , advocates around the country have helped build a movement to support key diabetes priorities in Congress, state legislatures, and legal advocacy.
Its focus includes diabetes research and programs, healthcare, insulin affordability , rights and protections relating to COVID for people with diabetes, diabetes prevention , and support for people living with and affected by diabetes. Visit its advocacy page to get involved. Similarly, the JDRF encourages the public to call for federal funding of diabetes research, and the organization helps inform health and regulatory policy, such as those relating to affordable access to insulin, Medicare coverage, and insurance coverage for preexisting conditions.
Visit its page for advocacy to start the process. Sharing your diabetes story is a great way to show support and help others who may also be living with the disease.
You can share your personal story of living with diabetes by filling out this form. The ADA regularly shares such stories to its blog. Here is an example of how they are presented:. But even so, he was already living on his own when his dad was diagnosed, so he only knew about his dad cutting out certain foods and taking his meds.
If you would like to a have a direct role in finding better treatments, or even a cure, for diabetes, consider volunteering for a clinical trial. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has a database through which you can find diabetes clinical trials that are seeking participants.
Click on each study headline to get details about participating. Before you sign up, consider watching a series of informational videos about clinical research participation provided by the U. The ADA also has a page listing clinical trials for which it is a supporter. Meanwhile, the JDRF has a clinical trial matching tool for people with type 1 diabetes who would like to find a study to participate in. Online support groups can be a healing way for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes to share tips and stories.
The ADA is sunsetting its own online community and joining forces with Beyond Type 1 and Beyond Type 2 to continue providing a platform for mutual support. People with type 1 diabetes can join the Beyond Type 1 Community and those with type 2 diabetes can join the Beyond Type 2 Community.
They settled on the Blue Circle, meant to become as recognizable as the ubiquitous pink ribbon for breast cancer, red ribbon for AIDS, or yellow ribbon for bring-home-the-troops. The blue hue is meant to evoke the color of the sky, and the circle embodies unity. In November , we interviewed D-Mom Kari about her views on how the month and bue-hue has gotten a bit stale over the years. See this Reagan declaration in !
This month is of course a time when diabetes organizations of all sizes launch awareness efforts, initiatives and campaigns, and our Diabetes Community comes together to share stories about this condition with the general public. For : Once again, we saw some new awareness initiatives across the U.
For : we saw a new two-year campaign launched by the International Diabetes Federation and several other online social media campaigns by other orgs out there. Themes have varied over the years and hit on multiple aspects of diabetes and general healthiness, as well as D-complications and exercise awareness initiatives.
Diabetes Nation? Area 23 was also filming a documentary of this whole process to help raise awareness about type 2 globally. Share with our Power of Us photo filter found in the link below and PowerofUs hashtag on social media. November 14 th is World Diabetes Day! Close out NDAM with Giving Tuesday on December 1, by downloading a social media graphic also found in link below and encourage your community to make a gift to JDRF during this annual day of giving to advance our mission of a world with T1D.
Abigail Anderson Abigail Anderson does not live with type 1 diabetes T1D , but her brother does, and she works to do all she can to raise awareness and show her support. LaShelle Barmore As a health care provider, Dr.
Samantha E. Derek Rodriguez Derek Rodriguez has lived with type 1 diabetes T1D since April , but was not a stranger to what life with T1D was like because both his mother and grandmother have lived with T1D since before he was born.
Soukaina Saboula Soukaina Saboula has lived with type 1 diabetes T1D for almost 15 years after being diagnosed at the age of 5. Show the world that you are the PowerofUs. Share with our Power of Us photo filter and PowerofUs hashtag on social media. Create Your Frame. T1Day November 1 st is T1Day! Giving Tuesday Download the following social media graphic and encourage your community to make a gift to JDRF during this annual day of giving to advance our mission of a world without T1D.
Path to a Cure: An Interactive Timeline Explore key events and achievements in the last 50 years of JDRF history with commentary, images and links to further information.
Explore the Timeline. Are you new to our community and to T1D? Check out our resources for how to get the conversation started here. Learn More.
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