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Dear Parents, Health Care Professionals, and School Staff:
We at DREDF (Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund) co-represented the American Diabetes Association in negotiating a settlement with the California Department of Education regarding care to be given to children with diabetes in California's schools. The link at CDE's website describing the settlement is at
http://www.cde.ca.gov/LS/he/hn/diabetesmgmt.asp

Now a number of nursing organizations have sued the CDE to set aside that part of the settlement that permits appropriately trained but unlicensed individuals to provide insulin to school children when a nurse is not available.  Again, we are representing the ADA in this second lawsuit.


The purpose of this message is to ask for your help
.  We are looking for stories from families such as yours who have had difficulty in obtaining care for their child during the course of the school day and from professionals, in the health and school setting, who can speak to the need for non-nurse assistance and supervision in diabetes care.  The stories will be presented in the form of written statements to the court.

We truly need your help to keep the settlement in place. If you feel that you can help please reply to this e-mail and we can set up a time to discuss.

Thank you,
Charlotte Lanvers

Charlotte Lanvers, Skadden Fellow
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, Inc.
2212 Sixth Street Berkeley, CA 94710
v/tty 510.644.2555 ext. 231 / fax 510.841.8645 / email: clanvers@dredf.org
5/20/08

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