Advocacy, Awareness & Your Voice
In 2018, Breakthrough T1D advocates secured legislation to make the Monday before Thanksgiving A Day in the Life – Type 1 Diabetes Day, providing us with a new chance to bust diabetes myths and raise awareness.
This year, A Day in the Life – Type 1 Diabetes Day is on Monday, 11/22 and to commemorate we’re asking everyone we know to do two things:
- Become an advocate!
- Shine a Light on T1D!
Become an Advocate
Being an advocate is one of the most important – and easiest – ways you can support the type one diabetes (T1D) community.
Breakthrough T1D Advocates use their voice to build and sustain critical support for T1D research by raising awareness among Members of Congress of the financial, medical and emotional costs of the disease. Advocacy is about using your voice, not your fundraising, to power our mission.
Signing up is easy, and you’ll receive occasional alerts (via email) to take action on.
Add your voice to our Breakthrough T1D community this National Diabetes Awareness Month. Visit www.breakthrought1d.org/join to become a Breakthrough T1D Advocate today!
We have 6,124 Breakthrough T1D advocates in our chapter to date, can we get to 7,000 by the end of November?!
Shine a Light on T1D!
In honor of the almost 43,000 New Jerseyans living with Type 1 Diabetes, we’re on a mission to turn our state blue during the month of November and we need your help! Throughout National Diabetes Awareness Month, we’re asking our community partners, local businesses, and individuals to Shine a Light on T1D by lighting up their offices and homes blue.
We ask that you send us a photo to share on social media with the hashtags #NDAM, #JDRF, #JDRFNJMetro, and #ShineALightOnT1D. Or simply tag us @JDRFNJmetro on Facebook or Instagram!
What is A Day in the Life-Type 1 Diabetes Day?
Following an inspiring meeting with junior ambassadors from Breakthrough T1D, New Jersey legislators Eric Houghtaling and Joann Downey, both representing the 11th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly, proposed a joint resolution to create New Jersey’s first ever type 1 diabetes awareness day to be held each November.
Officially titled “A Day in the Life – Type 1 Diabetes Day,” the day subsequently occurs on the Monday before Thanksgiving each year, and calls upon public officials and the citizens of New Jersey to observe the month and to draw attention to T1D, how it differentiates from type 2, and rally support for the T1D community.
