Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Education & Resources

Phoenix Children’s offers helpful resources to help your child and entire family feel confident with a new path forward, including:

• Online diabetes support: This private Facebook group connects families and children with others diagnosed with diabetes to share experiences.
• Illustrated videos: This series of fun, engaging and informative videos takes on common topics, like explaining what diabetes is and why it’s important to find and monitor your target blood sugar range. Watch a few or all 18 videos in the series.
• Emily Center Health Library: Find books, videos and other resources as well as highly skilled nurses who can help you conduct individualized research.

You can also print out these helpful information sheets:

• Learning about carbohydrates: This sheet provides an at-a-glance look at foods that have carbohydrates and those that do not.
• Insulin math worksheet: Need help finding the insulin sensitivity factor (ISF) and carb ratio (CF) in real-life situations? Practice with our worksheet.
• Timing of insulin: Understand how fast-acting insulin works and when to time meals and snacks.
• Sick days and high blood sugars: Find tips on how to manage your child’s sick days and high blood sugars with an insulin pump.