Resource List
Below is a list of useful resources and corresponding contact information.
For a detailed listing of organizations and programs related to children and
adolescents with diabetes and related conditions, visit the NDEP website: www.ndep.nih.gov
| American Academy of Family Physicians
(AAFP) The AAFP is the national member organization of family doctors. Its website includes articles about the link between obesity and diabetes in young people and how to help children lose weight. |
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway Leawood, KS 66211 Phone: (913) 906-6000 www.aafp.org |
| American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) The AAP is a professional membership organization committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. |
141 Northwest Point Boulevard Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098 Phone: (847) 434-4000 www.aap.org |
| American Academy of Family Physicians
(AAFP) The AAFP is the national member organization of family doctors. Its website includes articles about the link between obesity and diabetes in young people and how to help children lose weight. |
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway Leawood, KS 66211 Phone: (913) 906-6000 www.aafp.org |
| American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) The AAP is a professional membership organization committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. |
141 Northwest Point Boulevard Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098 Phone: (847) 434-4000 www.aap.org |
| American Association for Health Education
(AAHE) The AAHE serves health educators and other professionals who promote the health of all people through education and other systematic strategies. Programming focuses on health promotion in schools (K-12), health care, public and community agencies, business/industry, and professional preparation. AAHE is one of six national associations within the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. |
1900 Association Drive Reston, VA 20191 Toll-free: 1-800-213-7193, Ext. 437 www.aahperd.org/aahe |
| American Association of Diabetes Educators
(AADE) The AADE is a multidisciplinary organization for health professionals who provide diabetes education and care. The AADE website provides diabetes links, including information about diabetes in children and adolescents. |
100 West Monroe Street, Suite 400 Chicago, IL 60603 Toll-free: 1-800-TEAM-UP4 (1-800-832-6874) www.aadenet.org |
| American Council on Exercise
(ACE) The ACE is a nonprofit organization that promotes active, healthy lifestyles and their positive effects on the mind, body, and spirit. Its programs are directed to youths as well as adults. |
4851 Paramount Drive San Diego, CA 92123 Phone: (858) 535-8227 www.acefitness.org |
| American Diabetes Association (ADA) The ADA's mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and improve the lives of people with diabetes. Founded in 1940, the association conducts programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, reaching hundreds of communities across the country. The ADA is a nonprofit organization that provides diabetes research, information and advocacy. The association offers a variety of programs focused on young people with diabetes. |
1701 North Beauregard Street Alexandria, VA 22311 Toll-free: 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383) www.diabetes.org For information about ADA's training curriculum for school personnel: www.diabetes.org/schooltraining |
| American Dietetic Association
(ADA) The ADA is a member organization for registered dietitians and registered technicians representing special interests, including public health, sports nutrition, medical nutrition therapy, diet counseling for weight control, cholesterol reduction, and diabetes. More than 5,000 dietitians now belong to the ADA's specialty group on Diabetes Care and Education. |
120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000 Chicago, IL 60606-6995 Toll-free: 1-800-877-1600 Consumer referral: 1-800-366-1655 www.eatright.org |
| American Medical Association (AMA) The AMA is the nation's leader in promoting professionalism in medicine and setting standards for medical education, practice, and ethics. As the largest physician membership organization in the United States, the AMA is at the forefront of every major development in medicine and is a steadfast and influential advocate for physicians and their patients. The AMA works tirelessly to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. |
American Medical Association Science, Quality and Public Health Group 515 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: (312) 464-4908 |
| American School Health Association
(ASHA) The mission of the ASHA is to promote and improve the well-being of children and youth by supporting comprehensive school health programs. In addition to a journal, the association produces a book for school nurses and families on managing school-age children with chronic health conditions. |
Route 43, P.O. Box 708 Kent, OH 44240 Phone: (330) 678-1601 www.ashaweb.org |
| Barbara Davis Center for Childhood
Diabetes The Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes is the largest diabetes and endocrine care program in Colorado with unique facilities and resources for clinicians, clinical researchers, and basic biomedical scientists working to help patients with type 1 diabetes. The center provides state-of-the-art clinical diabetes care to a majority of children and many adults within the Rocky Mountain Region. |
4200 East Ninth Avenue Box B -140 Denver, Colorado 80262 Phone: (303) 315-8796 www.barbaradaviscenter.org |
| Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) The CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. CDC divisions with special relevance to diabetes in students are the Division of Diabetes Translation, the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, and the Division of Adolescent and School Health. |
4770 Buford Highway, NE Atlanta, GA 30341 Toll-free: 1-800-311-3435 www.cdc.gov |
Division of Diabetes Translation |
Toll-free: 1-877-CDC-DIAB (1-877-232-3422) www.cdc.gov/diabetes |
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity |
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa |
Division of Adolescent and School Health |
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash |
| Disability Rights Education and Defense
Fund (DREDF) DREDF is a national law and policy center dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities through legislation, litigation, advocacy, technical assistance, and education and training of attorneys, advocates, persons with disabilities, and parents and children with disabilities. |
2212 Sixth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 Phone: (510) 644-2555 www.dredf.org |
| Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association This nonprofit service organization is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people with diabetes through exercise. |
1647-B West Bethany Home Road Phoenix, AZ 85015 Toll-free: 1-800-898-4322 www.diabetes-exercise.org |
| Educational Resources Information Center
(ERIC) The ERIC is a federally funded, nonprofit information network designed to provide ready access to education literature for teachers and parents. |
1307 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20005-4701 Toll-free: 1-800-822-9229 www.eric.ed.gov |
| Indian Health Service (IHS) IHS National Diabetes Program The mission of the IHS is to develop, document, and sustain a public health effort to prevent and control diabetes in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. |
5300 Homestead Road, NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 Phone: (505) 248-4182 www.ihs.gov |
| Joslin Diabetes Center The Joslin Diabetes Center and its affiliates offer a full range of services for children and adults with diabetes, including programs to help youngsters with diabetes and their families to better manage the disease. |
1 Joslin Place Boston, MA 02215 Toll-free: 1-800-JOS-LIN1 (1-800-567-5461) www.joslin.harvard.edu |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
(JDRF) The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. |
120 Wall Street New York, NY 10005-4001 Toll-free: 1-800-533-CURE (1-800-533-2873) www.jdrf.org |
| Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine
Society (LWPES) The LWPES is a membership organization that promotes the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge of endocrine and metabolic disorders from conception through adolescence. The LWPES website provides links with information about diabetes in children and adolescents. |
867 Allardice Way Stanford, CA 94305 Phone: (650) 494-3133 www.lwpes.org |
| National Association of Elementary School Principals
(NAESP) The NAESP promotes advocacy and support for elementary and middle level principals and other education leaders in their commitment to all children. |
Linkages to Learning 1615 Duke Street Alexandria, VA 22314 Toll-free: 1-800-38-NAESP (1-800-386-2377) www.naesp.org |
| National Association of School Nurses
(NASN) The NASN is a nonprofit organization that represents school nurses; it offers continuing education, issues briefs, holds an annual conference, provides legislative updates and position statements, and other materials. For information about the National Association of School Nurses and the Pediatric Adolescent Diabetes Research Foundation's "P.E.D.S." (Pediatric Education for Diabetes in Schools) training workshop and manual, contact NASN. |
1416 Park Street, Suite A Castle Rock, CO 80109 Toll-free: 1-866-NASN-SNS (1-866-627-6767) www.nasn.org |
| National Association of Secondary School Principals
(NASSP) The NASSP is a membership organization of middle level and high school principals, assistant principals, and aspiring school leaders from across the United States and around the world. NASSP's motto is "promoting excellence in school leadership," and the association provides members with various programs and services to guide them in administration, supervision, curriculum planning, and staff development to achieve that goal. |
1904 Association Drive Reston, VA 20191 (703) 860-0200 www.principals.org |
| National Association of State Boards of
Education (NASBE) The NASBE is a nonprofit association that represents state and territorial boards of education. NASBE's principal objectives include strengthening state leadership in educational policymaking, promoting excellence in the education of all students, advocating equality of access to educational opportunity, and assuring continued citizen support for public education. |
277 South Washington Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 684-4000 www.nasbe.org |
| National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
(NCPAD) The NCPAD provides information about current research, local programs, adapted equipment, recreation and leisure facilities, and many other aspects of physical activity for persons with disabilities, including children and adolescents with diabetes. |
1640 West Roosevelt Road Chicago, IL 60608 Toll-free: 1-800-900-8086 www.ncpad.org |
| National Education Association (NEA)
Health Information Network The NEA Health Information Network is the nonprofit health affiliate of the National Education Association, the nation's largest labor organization representing 2.3 million public school employees. The mission of the NEA Health Information Network is to ensure that all public school employees, students, and their communities have the health information and skills to achieve excellence in education. |
1201 16th Street, NW Suite 521 Washington, DC 20036-3290 Phone: (202) 833-4000 www.neahin.org |
| National Information Center for Children and Youth
with Disabilities This national information and referral clearinghouse on special education and disability-related issues provides information about local, state, or national disability groups and gives technical assistance to parents and professionals. |
P.O. Box 1492 Washington, DC 20013-1492 Toll-free: 1-800-695-0285 www.nichcy.org |
| National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health The NICHD conducts and supports laboratory, clinical, and epidemiologic research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families, and populations. |
31 Center Drive, MSC 2425 Bethesda, MD 20892-2425 Phone: (301) 496-5133 www.nichd.nih.gov |
| National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of
Health The NIDDK conducts and supports research on many of the most serious diseases affecting public health. The Institute supports much of the clinical research on the diseases of internal medicine and related subspecialty fields as well as many basic science disciplines. |
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National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)The NDEP is a federally sponsored program of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, involving over 200 public and private partners to improve diabetes treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, promote early diagnosis, and prevent diabetes. |
1 Diabetes Way Bethesda, MD 20892-3600 Toll-free: 1-800-438-5383 www.ndep.nih.gov |
National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)The NDIC is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases that provides information about diabetes to people with diabetes, their families, health care professionals, and the public. |
1 Information Way Bethesda, MD 20892-3560 Toll-free: 1-800-860-8747 www.niddk.nih.gov |
| Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society
(PENS) The PENS is a nonprofit professional nursing organization with the goal of advancing pediatric endocrine nursing. Its website features articles about diabetes-related topics, including insulin pump therapy, obesity in children, and development of a pediatric diabetes education program for home health nurses. |
P.O. Box 2933 Gaithersburg, MD 20886-2933 Phone: Not available. All contact is through mail or email. Email: Through website under Contact PENS. www.pens.org |
| U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) The USDA supports several programs of importance to students with diabetes: the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, the Food and Nutrition Information Center, and the Food and Nutrition Service. |
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion www.usda.gov/cnpp Food and Nutrition Information Center www.nal.usda.gov/fnic Food and Nutrition Service www.fns.usda.gov/fns |
| U.S. Department of
Education* The mission of the Department of Education is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation. |
400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 |
| Office for Civil Rights (OCR) | Toll-free: 1-800-421-3481 TTY: 1-877-521-2172 www.ed.gov/ocr |
| Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) | Phone: (202) 205-5507 TTY: (202) 205-5637 www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP |
*Resources, including websites, are mentioned in this
guide as examples and are only a few of the many appropriate resource materials
available. Other materials mentioned are provided as resources and examples for
the reader’s convenience. Listing of materials and resources in this guide
should not be construed or interpreted as an endorsement by the U.S. Department
of Education of any private organization or business listed herein.
Produced by the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a federally sponsored partnership of the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than 200 public and private organizations.
To obtain copies of the complete publication titled, Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel (NDEP-61), please call the National Diabetes Education Program at 1-800-438-5383 or visit the program's website at www.ndep.nih.gov to download copies.
This reprint is compliments of Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc. Reproduced with permission.
Important Notice: Information provided is for general background purposes and is not intended as a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment by a trained professional. You should always consult your physician about any health care questions you may have, especially before trying a new medication, diet, fitness program, or approach to health care issues.
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