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Diabetes Resources for Schools and Youth
Students with diabetes are more likely to succeed in school when the student’s school health team and the student’s personal diabetes health care team work together. NDEP offers information about diabetes in children and teens as well as tools and resources to help them manage their diabetes.
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Diabetes Resources for Schools
Helping
the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel
NDEP offers a comprehensive resource guide to help students with diabetes, their
health care team, school staff, and parents work together to provide optimal diabetes
management in the school setting.
Promote the Guide to your community. NDEP has a full promotional kit including a presentation, newsletter article, and social media messages to help partners promote effective diabetes management in school settings.
Resources
for School Personnel
NDEP’s Diabetes HealthSense tool has classroom activities, after-school activities,
curricula, and other resources to promote healthy living with your students.
Diabetes Education for Children and Adolescents
About 215,000 young people under 20 years of age have diabetes. Most of them have
type 1 diabetes. As obesity rates in children continue to soar, type 2 diabetes,
a disease that used to be seen primarily in adults over age 45, is becoming more
common in young people.
Learn how to lower the risk for getting type 2 diabetes and learn more about type 1 and type 2 diabetes, including how to manage the disease for health and well-being.
Be Active!
(¡Mantente activo!)
Being active keeps your body healthy and strong and gives you more energy. It can
help you think and be more alert in school. It can also help you stay at a healthy
weight or help you lose weight slowly.
What Is
Diabetes? (¿Que es la diabetes?)
This tip sheet provides useful information about diabetes and encourages children
and adolescents to take action to manage their disease for a long and healthy life.
Lower Your
Risk for Type 2 Diabetes (Disminuye tu riesgo de desarrollar la diabetes tipo 2)
Diabetes means that blood glucose (GLOO-kos), also called blood sugar, is too high.
Glucose comes from the food we eat and is needed to fuel our bodies.
More resources for children and adolescents >
Diabetes Education for Parents
When Your Child is Diagnosed with Diabetes: Parents’ Questions for the Health Care Team
Parents of children with diabetes often have concerns about the disease, its impact
on their family, and how to keep their children safe and healthy. Use these questions
to talk with your child’s health care team and learn about your child’s diabetes
care needs.
Transitions: From Pediatric
to Adult Health Care
NDEP has assembled materials to help teens and young adults with diabetes make a
smooth transition to adult health care. Families and health care professionals will
also find these materials helpful.
Related Resources
Directory: Resources for
Diabetes in Children and Adolescents
This directory lists government agencies, professional organizations, and voluntary
associations that provide information and resources related to diabetes in children
and adolescents. Some of these organizations offer educational materials and support
to people with diabetes and the general public, while others primarily serve health
care professionals.
School Nurse News
An independent publication developed specifically to meet the needs of school nurses
and other health care professionals serving children and adolescents in the school
setting.
NASN School Nurse Articles
The NASN School Nurse is the official clinical journal of National Association
of School Nurses.
Quiz for Teens with Diabetes
5 Things You May Not Know About Managing
Your Diabetes
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Focus on Diabetes Research
The
TODAY Study was a randomized clinical trial to compare the efficacy and
safety of three interventions to treat adolescents and youth with type 2 diabetes.
NIH study examines treatment options for type 2 diabetes in youth, 2012 release
The Healthy Study,
which was designed to moderate risk factors for type 2 diabetes in adolescents,
involved 42 middle schools and followed students from 6th grade to the end of 8th
grade.
Publications
Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel
(NDEP-61)
This comprehensive resource guide helps students with diabetes, their health care team, school staff, and parents work together to provide optimal diabetes management in the school setting. View or download promotional tools.
Please scroll down to see the full text.
Tips for Teens: Lower Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
(NDEP-87)
This tip sheet encourages teens to take steps to lower their risk for type 2 diabetes and provides advice on reaching a healthy weight and leading an active lifestyle. It includes healthy food and activity guides.
Tips for Teens with Diabetes: What is Diabetes?
(NDEP-63)
This tip sheet provides useful information about diabetes and encourages teens to take action to manage their disease for a long and healthy life.
Resources
When Your Child Is Diagnosed with DIABETES: Parents' Questions for the Health Care Team
A list of questions to ask the doctor when your child is diagnosed with diabetes.
National Diabetes Education Program: An Overview
Learn more about the National Diabetes Education Program's initiatives, goals and partnership network.
School Nurse News
An independent publication developed specifically to meet the needs of school nurses and other healthcare professionals serving children and adolescents in the school setting. This publication provides practical, timely, useful information that can be used in the school health care professional&rsquo...
NASN School Nurse Articles
The NASN School Nurse is the official clinical journal of the National Association of School Nurses and is published in January, March, May, July, September, and November. The mission of the NASN School Nurse is to enhance school nursing practice by facilitating communication and the exchange of...
