School Care for Kids with Diabetes
A growing number of children and adolescents have diabetes and require care at school to ward off serious short- and long-term complications. In an effort to ensure that students with diabetes are safe and healthy at school, PTA passed an important resolution at the 2006 National PTA Convention: Recognition and Care of School-Age Children with Diabetes. The resolution sets out a best practices model for school diabetes care, urging that all school personnel receive general training on diabetes and that every school have at least two staff members trained to perform essential diabetes care.
Every November, during American Diabetes Month, the American Diabetes Association ( ADA ) works to increase public awareness about the seriousness of diabetes and the risks associated with this disease. Health chairs and other local PTA leaders are encouraged to make their members and school administrators aware of the resources ADA has created to enable parents, school nurses, teachers, and other school staff members to provide necessary care to children with diabetes and effect needed policy changes.
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