Getting Connected for Better Control:
The Role of Technology Resources for Children and Youth living with Diabetes.
JDRF was formelrly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, but now its name is no longer and acronym. JDRF is a major charitable organization that was founded in 1970 as the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation that was led by Lee Ducat, with a group of local parents with children T1D. The vision is to have a world without type 1 diabetes. The mission or the main focus is to have ground breaking changes in cures, and to prevent and treat T1D and its impediments. JDRF also gets involved with fundraisers that help raise awareness to the disease. The JDRF walk is the largest type 1 diabetes event in the world it brings over 900, 000 people from across the world to support this worth cause. As time passed and the foundation grow it became simply known as JDRF from its former full name “Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation”.
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National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) was founded in 1997 and is a federally-sponsored initiative that works with the private and the public sectors. The efforts are to develop diabetes management and outcomes, enhance early diagnoses, and to prevent or delay the development of diabetes. NDEP is needed because diabetes is one of the nation’s leading causes of death and disability. Earlier prevention can help prevent heart attack, strokes, kidney and nerve disease if caught earlier enough. The goal is to decrease the hardships and complications through awareness and knowledge of the seriousness of diabetes. The program also is striving to decrease the number of Americans with undiagnosed diabetes. NDEP has several strategies to further the cause one of which is to conduct and support the evaluation of NDEP resources, and future events and programs gauged at raising awareness and eliminating diabetes.
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https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-communication-programs/ndep/Pages/index.aspx