T1DOC November Newsletter

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The Type One Diabetes Optimist Club (T1DOC) is an 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 T1DOC’s November newsletter.

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

  • November 12 – Brian Wilcomb will tell about his adventures climbing a 14er as a T1D
  • December 10 – Sonia Chritton will speak about the latest T1D research

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).