Alberta Children's Hospital Diabetes Clinic
Resources
Living with a chronic disease like Type 1 Diabetes may
have an impact on your daily family life. To help with
some of these challenges, our team has collected
the following local resource information.
Halloween Carb Counting Guide
to assist with counting carbs during this Halloween season
School Resources
Our team has prepared a Student School Package which contains helpful resources
for parents/caregivers to share with schools and teachers. This package includes:
- School Tips for Type 1 Diabetes: Tips on communicating with your child's school
- Student Care Plan: Your child's on-site school record
- Letter for School Staff: A guide when informing the school of your child's diabetes
Financial Resources
Mental Health and Emotional Support
The psycho-social team (psychology and social work) provides services to children, youth and parents who are struggling with concerns related to diabetes such as needle fears, adjusting to a new diagnosis of diabetes, coping with and managing diabetes care, child and parent conflict and parenting challenges. Please ask a member of your diabetes team for a referral.
Children, youth and their parents may have other mental health or life challenges that are not directly related to their diabetes that they may need support with. Please see the resources below.
For immediate safety concerns (thoughts of suicide/serious self-harm),
please visit the Emergency Department, Alberta Children's Hospital or your local Emergency Department.
Websites for Children
- Diabetes, (About Kids Health)
- Children with Diabetes
- C-Pak: Connection Parents and Kids with Diabetes
- Power on Your Shield, a new Medtronic Kid's website, (Medtronic)
- Type 1 Diabetic Hockey, click here for more information
- Waltzing the Dragon
Websites for Teens
- Diabetes Hope Foundation Transitioning with T1 Diabetes for teens and young adults living with diabetes
- Building a network for youth, (Diabetes Canada)
- Camps in Canada for teens with diabetes, (Diabetes Canada)
- Guide for successful transition to college and university, (Diabetes Hope Foundation)
- Legalizing and Strictly Regulating Cannabis: The Facts, (Government of Canada)
- The Effects of Cannabis use During Adolescence, (Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction)
- Transitioning Youth with Diabetes, a website helping to transition from the Alberta Children’s Hospital to an adult diabetes clinic
- Virtual Peer Network (VPN) for those with TD1 ages 14-24 years, (Canadian Health Institute for Health Research)
Websites for Parents & Caregivers
- Air travel, (Diabetes Canada)
- Alberta Diabetes Foundation
- Attend a Medtronic virtual information session to learn about new pump technology, (Medtronic)
- Commitment to Comfort Resources available for families at the Alberta Children's Hospital
- Diabetes, (BC Children’s Hospital)
- Diabetes Canada
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- Skin Solutions: Preventing skin irritation Device Comparison Chart: Learn how each device calculates, (PANTHER, Diabetes Technology Deciphered)
Message to our website visitors
This site is for information purposes only and should not be used in place of medical advice, instruction and/or treatment.
If you have questions, speak with your child’s diabetes health care provider.