Peer support & networking
The DAWN Youth survey showed that:
- Lack of connection to other children with diabetes
- Need for support for parents
- Poor communication in the family
- Stigma of living with diabetes
- Burn-out from living with diabetes
- Lack of support to make healthy (smart) choices
- Distrust of child’s capabilities in self-management
- Lack of general understanding of what it means to have diabetes
- Less than 50% are involved in community activities related to diabetes
- Approx 25% find that diabetes regularly causes them embarrassment
- Approx 12% experience discrimination
