T1DOC April Newsletter

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The Type One Diabetes Optimist Club (T1DOC) is a newly formed Optimist club organized to provide support to JDRF, and the entire T1 community to improve the lives of the with T1D. T1DOC helps those with T1D in many ways, which include:

  • assisting in providing educational outreach and awareness to school communities.
  • helping raise research funds seeking a T1 cure and improved treatment options.
  • raising scholarship funds to allow T1D kids to attend special diabetes camps.
  • establishing a speaker’s bureau to educate about T1D and JDRF.
  • providing a cadre of motivated volunteers to assist JDRF and other T1 organizations.

Click here to read the April Newsletter.

Anyone is welcome to attend meetings! Meeting are held at 6:30 PM on the first and third Wednesday of every month at Perkins (955 S Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80222). Speakers include:

  • April 2 – Paramedic Kevin Coffey, on how diabetics are treated in an emergency
  • April 16 – Dr. Jennifer Raymond, on adolescent diabetic behavior
  • May 24 – Suzanne Pecoraro MPH, RD, CDE – Diabetic Nutritionist

For more information on the T1DOC and its goals, please contact Jeff Gartz (303-987-8224), David Cooper (720-621-2739), Dick Cohen (303-320-1767) or Ron Gustas (303-770-9640).