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Friends for Life Winter 2020 – Faculty

August 25, 2020

Conference Faculty Indicates faculty member with diabetes Faculty Teen Staff Tween Staff Elementary Staff Kiddie Kove Staff Return to the Conference Page

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Full Circle

July 21, 2020

Leigh Fickling, CWD mom and beloved member of our Friends for Life faculty, spent last week participating in our first Virtual Friends for Life Orlando (VFFLO) conference.  Today, we’re sharing her thoughts on how bringing VFFLO to our community takes us all the way around to the beginning, coming full circle.  And while we’re so […]

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Virtual Friends for Life Orlando 2020 – CWD Staff

April 28, 2020

CWD Staff Indicates CWD staff member with diabetes Faculty CWD Staff Youth Staff Room Captains Back to the Virtual Friends for Life Orlando Page

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Virtual Friends for Life Orlando 2020 – Faculty

May 1, 2020

Conference Faculty Indicates faculty member with diabetes Faculty CWD Staff Youth Staff Special Guests Room Captains Back to the Virtual Friends for Life Orlando Page

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Diversity, Inclusion, and Getting More of Both in the DOC with Cherise Shockley

May 5, 2020

Screenside Chats with CWD Talking About Diversity, Inclusion, and Getting More of Both in the DOC with Cherise Shockley Watch Cherise Shockley, founder of #dsma, @WOCdiabetes, and diaTribe Community Manager, engage with CWD board member Kerri Sparling for a discussion about the diabetes online community, inclusion, and strategies for sharing more stories. This video was […]

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Siblings Series: An Excerpt from Balancing Diabetes

December 19, 2019

At our Friends for Life conferences, we bring focus to the sibling experience, and we’re very excited to highlight some of their perspectives through our Siblings Series.  In this article, we’re sharing an excerpt from CWD board member Kerri Sparling‘s book, Balancing Diabetes, about Siblings with Diabetes. – – – I don’t have a clear […]

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The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina’s Triumph Over Diabetes

December 9, 2018
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It started as the perfect story. Zippora Karz was a member of the famed New York City Ballet by the age of eighteen. By twenty she was starring as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, dancing roles created by Jerome Robbins, and traveling the world. It was the stuff dreams are made of until, at […]

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TeamCWD’s Magical Miles: WDW Marathon Weekend Recap

January 22, 2025
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Long before sunrise at Walt Disney World and wrapped in mylar, TeamCWD braved the uncharacteristically cold Florida temperatures to make our mark at the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend. With 100 runners donned in TeamCWD shirts and swag and spectators ready with smiley signs, we all came together with one mission in mind: Care Today, […]

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Highlights from ADCES23: Celebrating Diabetes Care and Education in Houston

August 8, 2023
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Howdy friends! The Children with Diabetes team had the opportunity to attend the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) Annual Conference in Houston, Texas last week and we can’t wait to share with you some of our highlights from the event. This year’s annual conference was held at the George R. Brown Convention […]

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Health Care Providers Weigh in on DIY Closed Loop Systems

October 27, 2021
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The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Diabetes World has been back in the news recently and more health care professionals who work in diabetes have been publishing articles sharing their experiences with these systems as well. However, since the DIY systems are diabetes care tools that were created by patients outside of the normal approval process, there is […]

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