You’re invited to a Summer Bash with Rufus!
Join us and enjoy a diabetes check-up for Rufus, meet life-sized Rufus the Bear with Diabetes, an educational session for parents/caregivers, t-shirts for all the kids, and giveaways for everyone!
Please bring your Rufus Bear to the event! If your T1D child does NOT have a Rufus be sure to indicate that on the registration form so we can try to get one for them in time for the event. For any child/sibling attending the event that does not live with T1D they can bring a stuffed animal with them to participate in the event. We will have Breakthrough T1D t-shirts for any stuffed animals that want one!
While children of any age are welcome, the program will be most appropriate for children under 13.
Agenda Overview:
- 10:00-10:30am – Guest arrival and check-in. During this window you can begin to mingle with other guests and work with your children to get their check-up equipment ready!
- 10:30-11:00am – Rufus Diabetes Check-Up lead by Pediatric Endocrinology Team
- 11:00-11:20am – Snack break
- 11:20-11:50am – Simultaneous programs:
- “Why me? Why now?” Facing life with T1D and where to go from here for parents/caregivers
Presenter: Kathy MacNeill, MSN, RN, CDCES, BC-ADM
- “Just Ask!” by Sonia Sotomayor reading with children
Presenter: TBD
- 12:00pm – event concludes
St. Joseph's Children's Hospital
St. Joseph’s Hospital Medical Arts Building
Parking is available (and FREE) in the garage next to the Medical Arts Building. There will be signs leading you from the parking garage to the event. We will also be sending a pre-event email the week of the event with map images.
3001 West Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33612