Whether you’re sending someone back to school or heading back to school yourself, diabetes requires additional considerations and preparation to ensure students are safe and thriving at school. One of the wonderful things about the diabetes community is the resources they make available for some of the different situations we might find ourselves in. We thought it might be helpful to share some of our favorite community resources about diabetes and school:
The American Diabetes Association has created some useful resources including:
The Beyond Type 1 team also created a set of school resources including write-ups specific to your grade (elementary, high school, college) or role within a school (teacher, coach, etc), including some downloadable guides that can help present diabetes to people who may be unfamiliar with it: https://beyondtype1.org/school/
Do you have any other resources you have found helpful with the diabetes and school journey? Is there something missing that you think needs to be created? Please let us know.
For those interested, we’ll be hosting a webinar about diabetes and school featuring Dr. Alan Cortez, a Pediatric Endocrinologist from Kaiser Permanente, Stacy Seiler, RN, BSN, PHN, a Credentialed School Nurse, entering her fourth year working in the public school system, and Tidepool’s Development Associate, Saira Khan-Gallo.
