Items of Interest

Just so that everyone is aware things are starting to shape up for all sorts of events that you may be interested in this 2012 year.  I hope you are able to join for some of the fun!

ITunes for your Time
 - Teenagers with type 1 diabetes T1DM needed for research study

ADA Camp Colorado - July 1-6th, 2012 - Check out the web page to register and learn more.

Monthly Coffee Meetings with Diabetes Counts - The third Saturday of each month starting March 17th from 10-11:30a.m. at Cups Coffee House

Type 1 Fun Night at CMU - please mark your calendars more information will be available soon!
April 27th, 2012 at the CMU Maverick Center Room 163 for Check in (5-5:30p.m.) and Check out(8:30-9p.m.)

JDRF Walk for the Cure - check the website because this usually happens in September.

Mark your Calendar

Please join us for:

Parent Morning Network
The first saturday of every month starting March 17th, 2012
From 10-11:30 AM
At Cups Coffee Shop & Cafe
Located at the Historic Miller Homestead
3090 North 12th Street, Grand Junction
Monday - Friday, 6:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday, 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
(970) 623-9665

Type 1 Fun Night at CMU
(a.k.a. Parents Night Out)

We are currently working on setting up the next date please check back soon!

R.S.V.P. to : Summer Turner at Diabetes Counts - (970) 434-6223
More information will be available as we get closer to this date.

Thank you all for your support and interest in Diabetes Counts Networking Group. 
Thank you especially to Community Hospital Foundation.

Information we would like to share:

M*A*S*H Camp
Colorado Mesa University Health and Sciences Department
http://www.coloradomesa.edu/healthsciences/mash.html
This is an awesome program at a very reasonable price.  Check it out!

American Diabetes Association Colorado
Calendar of Events
http://www.diabetes.org/in-my-community/local-offices/denver-colorado/
This is the place to look for the Diabetes Camp that runs every summer in Colorado Springs, CO and many more local diabetic events.

TEAM JDRF - This is where you can set up your own fundraiser and the proceeds go to JDRF to help find a cure to type 1 diabetes.  This would be a great thing for college bound high schoolers or type 1 community members who want to show their support for JDRF.
http://jdrfevents.donordrive.com/

Diabetes Counts
We are here to support you the type 1 community in the western Colorado and eastern Utah area, especially kindergarten through 12th grade type 1 students.  We are interested in raising funds with Community Hospital, getting a pediatric endocrinologist here in Grand Junction at least a few times a year to help support local endocrinologists who are overwhelmed with patients and to work toward community awareness and education about type 1 diabetes.  If you would like to be involved please sign up at our web page and we will let you know when we hold events and need help.

Join us for...

Type 1 Fun Night at

 Colorado Mesa University

(a.k.a. Parents Night Out)

The Fun Stuff:                              Where?

• Games                       Colorado Mesa University
• Sports                     Maverick Center, Room 163
• Food                           Friday, February 10th
• Type 1 Athletes            Drop-off between 5-5:30pm
• No Parents                 Pick-up between 8:30-9pm

Information:

All Adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their siblings are invited to a night of fun.  Adolescents 8-18 are encouraged to attend, children under 10 will be taken on a room-available basis.

-Parents-

There will be Certified Nurses as well as Certified Diabetic Educators and nursing students on staff for the event.

-Students, Kids, Teens-

This is a free event where you can come hang out and have a good time so we look forward to seeing you there!

To R.S.V.P. -
Summer Turner (970) 434-6223 or DCCGJT@gmail.com
Questions? Contact Debra Bailey at (970) 248-1772

We would like to thank Community Hospital Foundation, JDRF, and Colorado Mesa University for their support in putting together this event.

2012 Events and Such

Hello Friends!  It is 2012 and we are ready to start working on getting together for another fun and educational event this February, we also are working on a calendar that will allow you to see in advance what get togethers are on the horizon.  If you go to our face book page there is even a little survey asking if the things we have thought to do this year are things that also interest you.

Please take the time to go fill out the survey on face book, check out our web site and fill in the information page so that we can keep you informed about events, and finally below are the same events you can vote on at the face book page by date.

Starting in February we will hold a regular Parents Coffee at a local spot where we can all get together and visit.  This event is one that is taking off in Denver and other areas, if you would like to hold one in your area please let us know and we will be happy to post it on our sites for you as will many other web sites for type 1 diabetics.  Keep an eye on all of our pages for information or links to Diabetes camps.  If you know of a camp we have not yet published please write and let us know.

January 2012 - This month is our planning month so we will not be holding a regular meeting.

February 2012 - We are working on putting together a Type 1 Fun Night at Colorado Mesa University.  This event is one we hope will appeal to all ages and will also give parents a little time to relax knowing their child is in knowledgeable hands.  We coordinate with the Assistant Professor of Nursing to create an evening where the parents drop off students and siblings to the care of 3 or so Nurses or Certified Diabetic Educators, a group of CMU Nursing Students and some responsible local teens.  There will always be someone with your child while they learn about nutrition through eating at the CMU Dining Hall, they will have fun doing different sports in the CMU Gym and they will enjoy being able to visit with other kids who are type 1 diabetics just like them.  If you have questions about it we will soon have a flyer with contacts on it.

March 2012 - We hope to offer a cooking class that offers a chance for diabetic kids and teens to cook while learning about food nutrition how it effects them and why it is important for them to know about food. 

April 2012 - This month we will look into offering a Family Swim Event.  In May we will take a break since this is generally a very busy time for families and students who have finals and graduation.

Please keep checking back and we will publish more about these events as we are able to gather more information.  Thank you so much for your interest.

Type 1 Fun Night at CMU (aka. Parents Night Out)

You are Invited:

CMU Mavericks

Where?

Maverick Center / Hamilton Recreation Center

Colorado Mesa University - Room 156

We would like to invite Type 1's and their sibilings to come join the RN Students at CMU for a night of fun.  Children 8-18 are encouraged to attend, below 8 will be taken on a room available basis.  All children will need to RSVP for a correct food and fun count.

What will everyone be doing?!

Games

Visiting / Hanging out

Sporty Fun

Food and Drinks will be provided

No Parents

Have questions?  Call Deb Bailey, Asst. Prof. RN, at 970-248-1772

RSVP on our web page, email us, or to Summer Turner @ 970-434-6223

Thanks so much to our sponsors:

JDRF and Funding from the Community Hospital Foundation



Event News

Friday October 28th, 2011

3:30 pm - 5: 00 pm

Angelo's Pottery & Glass Studio

Grand Junction, CO

CREATE YOUR OWN SILVER I.D.

You are welcome to join us for the fun!

Monday December 5th, 2011

Monday February 13th, 2012

Parent's Night Out / Type 1 Fun Night @ CMU

4:00 pm - 10:00 pm

More information to come on this but it will be an RSVP event so mark your calender now.  We will have supervision, fun, food, games and a lot more.  Again, more information will be available soon!

Visit Our Website!

http://diabetescounts.weebly.com/

Create Your Own Silver I.D.

You are Invited:

Where?  Angelo's Pottery Studio

2478 F Road, Grand Junction, CO  81505

970-243-0886

For What?  We will be using silver clay to create our own I.D.

If you RSVP by October 15th your single regular size I.D. will be paid for by the Community Hospital Foundation if not it is $45 per packet of silver and this makes 2 regular size I.D.s or 1 large I.D.

When?  Friday October 28th, 2011

3:30PM - 5PM

There will be snacks and water.

Please RSVP by October 15th to:

Diabetes Counts

Summer Turner - Coordinator

970-434-6223

dccgjt@gmail.com

or

Community Hospital Diabetes Education Center

Terri Thompson, CDE

970-256-6381

We will have Terri Thompson, CDE and another long time type 1 parent available for those of you who are newly diagnosed to visit with so bring your questions.

Thank you!

Diabetes Counts would like to thank a few important people for joining us and supporting us for our first ever ride in the Tour of the Valley!

On August 28th, 2011 at 6:30 AM we started arriving at the hotel with our bikes, meters, pumps, water, glucose, and whatever else we may have needed and getting ready to ride 15-30 miles.  The weather was overcast and warm and even though it was early it was beautiful out. 

Our youngest member, a 6 year old type 1, was very inspiring planning to ride as much of 15 miles as he could on his bike.  At 7AM we assembled with our bikes in front of the hotel where the ride started and took a photo as a team.  We had the representative from Sanofi Aventis, a Team Type 1 rider and her family, our Community Hospital sponsored CDE and her husband, and two familys with 3 type 1 kids. 

We finally got on our bikes and we were off to a great start!  Our group made it all 15 miles in about 2 hours and when we reached the rest stop we congratulated each other and some of us decided despite the looming clouds, ominous thunder and lightning to go ahead and ride back after part of us decided to go home.  The ride back was just as fun although, we did get cold and very wet it was a good time and the scenery all day was just wonderful.  Upon arriving back at the finish our 12 year old type 1 who rode all 30 miles said she was proud of herself for making it because she did not think she was going to when she started. 

Way to go everyone and thank you to all of you for showing up!  Maybe next year we will have even more families join us and the rain will wait so that we can all finish the entire 30 miles.

Tour of the Valley

Do you like to ride your bike?  

Would you like to ride with other families, type 1s, and be a part of something fun here in Grand Junction for free?! 

 Contact Diabetes Counts 

or Community Hospital 

about joining us for the 

Tour of the Valley Ride 

This next Sunday
August 28th, 2011! 

 Community Hospital is going to help pay for type 1 entry fee and if you need a riding buddy we have volunteers to ride with you!  You can choose a 15,30, 50, 75, or 100 mile ride. 

Please call Community Hospital and let them know you are a type 1 family who is wanting to ride and they will cover your entry fee. 

We will start at the Doubletree Hotel @ 7AM and we look forward to seeing you there!

Back to School BBQ

Join us for the BBQ

August 20th, 2011 Saturday

Canyonview Park

The Grand Shelter
next to the Playground and Volleyball area

12pm - 2pm

Please bring a side dish to share.

Notice:

  Sunday August 28th, 2011

Tour of the Valley Ride

Free entry for type 1 diabetics

for more information check out this link to Community Hospital.http://www.yourcommunityhospital.com/Tour_of_the_Valley.cfm  We look forward to enjoying a beautiful ride with everyone!

August Back to School B-B-Q

Hello Everyone!

We just wanted to let you know we will be holding a back to school b-b-q on
 Saturday August 20th @ Canyon View Park.
 We hope that you can all join us we are looking forward to hearing about how everyone enjoyed their vacation.  Keep checking back for updates!

Thanks!
Summer
Diabetes Counts Coordinator

Sponsorship Thank you!

We would like to put a giant thank you out there to Community Hospital for sponsoring us for our first year!  There will always be a need for sponsorship and donations in order for our group to offer fun events and meetings as well as educational opportunities to type 1 diabetics and their families if you know of someone looking to donate or sponsor please email us!

Have a healthy, adventurous, and fun filled summer everyone!

From all of us at Diabetes Counts

Summer Activities

Here in Grand Junction, Colorado we are fortunate to live within 50 miles of something fun to go and do any day of the week here are some fun ideas for you to enjoy your summer holiday see you for our next meeting August 20th!

MASH Camp at Colorado Mesa University / Mesa State College:  http://www.mesastate.edu/healthsciences/mash.html

Grand Junction Visitor and Convention Bureau: http://www.visitgrandjunction.com/

US National Forrest Campground Sites on the Grand Mesa: http://www.forestcamping.com/dow/rockymtn/gmsa.htm

Grand Junction Recreation Activity Guide: http://digital.publicationprinters.com/publication/?i=68235

Palisade Tourism: http://digital.publicationprinters.com/publication/?i=68235

 * Swimming Pool

 * Activity Guide

 * Much More

Fruita Tourism: http://digital.publicationprinters.com/publication/?i=68235

 * Recreation Center

 * Bike Trails

 * Hiking

 *Much More

Gateway Canyons Resort: http://www.gatewaycanyons.com/

 * Horseback Riding

 * Camping

 * Car Museum: http://www.gatewayautomuseum.com/

 * Much More

Glenwood Springs Chamber of Commerce: http://www.glenwoodchamber.com/

* Hot Springs

* Glenwood Caverns: http://glenwoodcaverns.com/

Ouray Chamber of Commerce: http://www.ouraycolorado.com/

* Hot Springs

* ATV

* Camping

Diabetes Counts May 19th Meeting

Please join us if you are in the area and are a type 1 between kindergarten and 12th grade.

We will be meeting 

Thursday May 19th, 2011 at 

Grand Mesa Middle School

585 31 1/2 Road

Grand Junction, CO 81504

Located south of Patterson / F Road at 31 1/2 Road.

The meeting will begin at 6pm with our guest speaker Debra Bailey, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Mesa State College followed by some time for families to visit.


We look forward to meeting you there.

p.s. We are now proudly listed on http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/support/us-co.htm as the only support group in Colorado please help us spread the news!

Teen Type 1 Pizza arty

Make your own pizza at Nick-n-Willy's!  Other teenagers will be there.  Meet Thursday, May 5th at 5pm at the Nick-n-Willy's on Horizon Drive, next to Safeway, bring $5 for your handmade pizza, you may even get to throw around some dough!

There will be supervision, parents will be welcome to stay, but remember this offer is for the teenagers only!!  You are welcome to bring a friend even if they are not a diabetic. 

Remember to bring $5 to pay for your pizza and drink!

Nick-N-Willy's Store #109 683 Horizon Dr. Grand Junction, CO. 81506   US Telephone: (970) 245-6425 Location: 12th St. & Horizon Dr., In the Safeway shopping center

New News!

Our May 19th Meeting is set for 6PM at Grand Mesa Middle School.  Please join us.

We are now on Face Book!  Just log on and search for Diabetes Counts. We look forward to seeing you there!

May Meeting

If you have a type 1 in your family or you are a type 1 between kindergarten and 12th grade we invite you and your family to join us for our second meeting:

Thursday
May 19th
6PM
Grand Mesa Middle School


At this meeting we will start with a 15 minute project, a 15-20 minute professional information speech and end with adult discussion and kid visiting time.

Just so you know we will be creating some other events throughout the year and meeting roughly every three months as a group.  We would like to do a JDRF Mentoring Project here, a JDRF Walk for the Cure at the schools and maybe join the large walk in Denver at Elitch Gardens.  We would like to have and are planning a teen meeting / group.  We also are working toward working with Community Hospital and the Mesa State Nursing Program on some other fun future events.  If you are interested in helping with any of these or want to be a part of them please email and let us know.

See you soon!

Our 1st Meeting was a Success!

I am super pleased to share the news that we had 5 wonderful families join us for our first meeting.  Thank you all for showing up and sharing!  I look forward to our next meeting when hopefully we will see more new faces!

We decided that meeting quarterly was what would work best for all the families who attended so our next meeting will be at the end of May before everyone leaves town for summer vacation.  I also talked about needing parent volunteers to help run things and was very pleasantly suprised to find out that almost all of the parents were interested in volunteering at least a few hours a month to get us up and running.  Thank you for the support everyone!

JDRF offers a really neat back pack full of goodies for type 1's and most of you did not know that so I am telling you now if you have not recieved a 'Bag of Hope' from them please contact JDRF in Denver and get one!  Who doesn't like shwag?!  The bag is full of information and has a suprise for you type 1 kids and it even has an insulated pocket for your insulin suplies.

Mentoring seems to be a big hit and we want to encourage that so we will be working to get those who would like to have a mentor set up as soon as possible.  JDRF offers a great program for mentoring and we will be utilizing it as much as possible.  If you are interested in being a mentor or a mentee please let us know with an email.  Along side this we think it would be great to get some type 1 teens and young adults who would be interested Red Cross certified to baby sit and share the list with all type 1 parents because it's always nice to have someone you can feel comfortable with watching  your child and what young person would not want to make a little extra money?

Finally, I just want to say thank you for keeping an eye on the blog and if you would like to comment or email please do so. If you were not able to make this meeting we will have other meetings and events and we look forward to meeting you.

Have a great day!
Summer Turner & Family
Creators of Diabetes Counts Network Group
Inspired by JDRF and Caid Turner

JDRF Fundraiser @ Smashburger

Thank you for attending and supporting us at:
Smashburger / JDRF Fundraiser

March 1st All Day!

Please eat and encourage your friends and family to eat at Smashburger any time on March 1st.  There are two locations in the area:  1st Street and Grand and Clifton on 6&50 Business Loop.  Both Smashburgers will be donating 25% of all sales on the 1st of March to Juvenille Diabetes Research Fund, let make it a success!

Thankyou for your support!