Welcome to ConnecT1D
ConnecT1D is a new nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the idea that having connections to other people is key to managing Type 1 Diabetes. ConnecT1D is being built to bring people impacted by Type 1 Diabetes together through events, meetups, programs, social networking, educational opportunities and support activities.
We strive to create an online resource where people affected by Type 1 Diabetes can discover and access events in their community, offer programs specific to the Type 1 Diabetes community and provide a place where the Type 1 community can connect to each other.
ConnecT1D is a volunteer run and managed nonprofit organization. Our volunteers range from parents of children who were just diagnosed, to adults who have lived with the disease for more than 50 years. ConnecT1D will narrowly focus on programs for the Type 1 community and create connections for people impacted by the disease. We invite you to explore the site and give us your thoughts about what should come next. Or even better, get involved and help us build!
What’s Next?
The ConnecT1D team is busy working on some new functionality for this site to create individual pages where specific events, content and blogs can be found to serve distinct communities within the Type 1 universe. Teens, Athletes and Parents of School-aged Children are a sample of the sections we’re working to create. Check back soon!
Highlights
Join the ConnecT1D Teen Group
The teenage years with Type 1 Diabetes can be made less isolating when you have a community that understands you. We’re forming a social group for teens with Type 1 Diabetes and building resources online to help create connections. The ConnecT1D teen group will host events 4-6 times each year. Click here for more info and to register for the first event on May 6.
Save the Date for the Inaugural ConnecT1D Family Camp
ConnecT1D is founded on the simple principle that people with diabetes manage their disease better when they have connections to and support from others with diabetes. To live our mission to connect people with diabetes to each other and to disease management resources, ConnecT1D will host our first annual Family Camp, October 12-14th, 2012! Click here for more info about the event and we’ll look forward to seeing you in October!
News & Updates
Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook by Dr. Sheri Colberg
Dr. Sheri Colberg has generously made a chapter available from her book, Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook. Download the chapter, and click here to purchase the book.
Dr. Sheri Colberg – A Personal Story
Sheri Colberg, PhD, also known as Sheri Colberg-Ochs (pronounced “Coal-Berg-Oaks”), is an author, exercise physiologist, and professor of exercise science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She was also appointed as adjunct professor of internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, also in Norfolk. Read more about the secret to her success with diabetes,… Read more »
Not Dead Yet by Phil Southerland
The following is an excerpt from the book, Not Dead Yet by Phil Southerland and John Hanc. You can get the hardcover book on Amazon here. The paperback edition will be available in June, 2012. In 2006 and 2007, my team — Team Type 1 — won the Race Across America, aka RAAM, the legendary… Read more »
Parents: Educate Yourselves About Type 1 Diabetes
Whatever you think you know about Type 1 Diabetes is probably wrong. Sorry. You’re most likely thinking about Type 2 Diabetes, which is so unlike T1D that it boggles the mind as to why they’re given such similar names. Before my BFF’s son Caleb was diagnosed
First U.S. Outpatient Artificial Pancreas Trial Gets FDA Approval
NEW YORK, March 19, 2012 — JDRF applauds the recent approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the first outpatient artificial pancreas trial in the United States, marking a critical development
