{"id":10015,"date":"2025-07-16T22:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/kansasmissouri\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:27:49","slug":"childrens-congress-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/2025\/07\/16\/childrens-congress-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Congress 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/cc.breakthrought1d.org\/\">Children&#8217;s Congress<\/a>! Thank you to everyone who supported our delegates along the way, whether it be through social media, kind words, or a phone call to wish them good luck!<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">170 delegates from all fifty states, and the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, Australia, and Canada convened in Washington, D.C. from July 7 \u20139 to share their stories with their legislators! They got to attend a Senate Hearing, speak to their Congressmen, and met with T1D Role Models, such as Katie Bone (American Ninja Warrior) and Ava August (American Idol Finalist), and others!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Our delegates focused on renewing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/explore-advocacy\/special-diabetes-program\/\">Special Diabetes Program<\/a> (SDP), securing strong funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and supporting policies that accelerate cell therapy research. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On July 9th, the Delegates officially headed to Capitol Hill. They were ready with their talking points, their stories, and their passion.<\/p>\n<p>The first event was a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing led by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Patt Murray (D-WA), Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, as well as Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee (Sens. Collins and Shaheen are also co-chairs of the Senate Diabetes Caucus). The hearing was titled \u201cA Future Without Type 1 Diabetes: Accelerating Breakthroughs and Creating Hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Four witnesses spoke about the importance of these issues and what it\u2019s like to live with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/t1d-basics\/\">T1D<\/a>\u2014including T1D Role Model Katie Bone, Delegates Rachel White and Ruby Whitmore, and Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing focused on the challenges facing the T1D community, the tangible steps Senators can take to ensure vital T1D research continues to drive us toward cures, and what is possible if the NIH, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/\">Breakthrough T1D<\/a>, and the rest of our partners continue to fruitfully collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>All 14 Senators in attendance demonstrated their bipartisan commitment to our Delegates and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/t1d-community\/\">T1D community<\/a>. During the hearing, Senator Collins announced that she and Senator Shaheen had just introduced the Special Diabetes Program Reauthorization Act of 2025 to renew the SDP\u2019s funding for 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lWKAgB9YzwU&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breakthrought1d.org%2F&amp;embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breakthrought1d.org&amp;source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-09-at-08.05.36.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-09-at-08.05.36-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-09-at-08.05.36-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-09-at-08.05.36-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-09-at-08.05.36-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-09-at-08.05.36.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Danna in front of the U.S. Capitol<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Our Chapter<\/strong> <strong>Delegates<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Kansas &amp; Missouri chapter was proud to send five delegates, four from Missouri and one from Kansas, to advocate on our behalf on Capitol Hill. These incredible kids live with type 1 diabetes and did an amazing job talking to their legislators! They got to speak with people like Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri, and Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, among others! Meet our five delegates below, and check out some of the photos from Children&#8217;s Congress!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/1-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10037 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/1-2-300x300.png\" alt=\"Children's Congress Delegate Alexander\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/1-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/1-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/1-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/1-2-768x768.png 768w, 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1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/5-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10045 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/5-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"Children's Congress Delegate Tommy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/5-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/5-3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/5-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/missouri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2025\/07\/5-3-768x768.png 768w, 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Thank you to everyone who supported our delegates along the way, whether it be through social media, kind words, or a phone call to wish them good luck! 170 delegates from all fifty states, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1317,"featured_media":10017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"publish_on_app_meta":"True","iawp_total_views":20,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","bt1d_storytelling_post":false,"bt1d_storytelling_more_posts":[]},"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-10015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jdrf_topic-advocacy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Missouri &amp; Kansas Youth Advocates Shine at Children\u2019s Congress | Breakthrough T1D 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