Friends for Life Spring Refuel 2021 FAQs

Use our Online Registration Form on our website, https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=601330&, to register for the free virtual conference.

This year's Friends for Life Spring Refuel 2021 conference is entirely virtual, and entirely free, thanks to the very generous support of our sponsors. You will need to have access to a computer or tablet that you can watch the sessions on, and an Internet connection.

Registration includes:

Participation in all virtual sessions (and we're offering a full slate of options!)

All sessions at Virtual Friends for Life Spring Refuel 2021 will be held using Zoom. Some will be meeting format (everyone is visible), some will be webinar format (only the speaker is visible). We will send an email with instructions on how to access the live site to all registered users a couple days before the conference begins. You will need to be registered to receive those instructions.

The Green bands are for anyone with diabetes, Orange bands are for the ones without diabetes, and Yellow bands are for anyone with Celiac or who eat gluten-free. You can read the entire story behind how the colors originated. In a nutshell, when we are in a large conference venue – or in this case, the world – we can see at a glance who is part of our amazing FFL tribe.

The same types of activities that we normally have in person... but the sessions will be shorter. Our youth program leaders are working on the schedule now. Many of them are teachers, and are newly-familiar with distance learning because of the world situation. They bring lots of great skills and energy to the table - errrrr… to the computer! 

Friends for Life® is for your entire family. Kids who don't have diabetes, whether they have a sibling or parent with type 1, participate in their age group sessions. There's much to learn and share for them too.

Since Friends for Life Spring Refuel 2021 is fully virtual, it's up to you to wear whatever feels most comfortable. We'd suggest your favorite FFL t-shirt from a past conference.

For the FFL Spring Refuel 2021 event, you will need to register for live sessions ahead of time.  Be sure to download Zoom and register for any sessions that you'd like to attend!  

Most of the webinar style sessions will be recorded and available to view after the conference. Sessions held in meeting format, with discussions, will not be recorded. Watch the CWD web site for how to find the recorded sessions.

Unless otherwise noted, they may, although we strongly encourage kids to be in their age-appropriate sessions. The material presented in adult sessions is on an adult level. Often, some of these same topics are discussed with the children within the context of some of their other learning activities - and the material is at an age-appropriate level for their group. Be aware that some adult and parents sessions include topics that are not appropriate for kids.

At our in-person conferences, we must be very strict about kids staying within their particular age groups. We have elementary group (ages 6-8), a young tween group (ages 9-10), and older tween group (ages 11-12), a young teen group (ages 13-15) an older teen group (ages 16-17). Those who are 18 are part of the young adult group, not teens. We request that for the virtual FFL, everyone continue to honor these guidelines.