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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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