1. Planning: Always my Number 1 priority. Decrease risks and dangers, set the tone for the school year, get your school support and medical team organized, learn about your child’s legal rights, and most importantly, support your child to thrive at school.
2. Day-to-day Management: Taking notes, recording food and carbohydrates, recording everything that happened throughout the day around your child’s care, organizing emergency supplies, and daily and weekly reviews.
3. Special Situations: Learn how to manage party food, after-school activities, school bus rides, school trips, and lockdowns.
4. Resources: Templates I use myself and places on the web to find more valuable information that you can trust.

Pam Durant is the Founder and Managing Director of DiapointME, and the mother of a school-aged child with Type 1 Diabetes. Her son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes over a decade ago when he was only 20 months old.

In 2016, she left her successful corporate career, which included working for one of the “Big 4” and one of the top Fortune 500 companies, to create DiapointME to help those touched by diabetes. She is now a diabetes mentor, speaker, advocate, and carer of her son. She is also a qualified wellness coach with a special focus on helping individuals and families to thrive with diabetes.