MYCARECONNECT FOUNDATION

Our goals are to first solve each families specific care coordination needs., address their specific challenges they are facing and align the proper resources they need to set them off on a positive health trajectory.
We exist to address each families challenges, offer our free care coordination tools, ones we created soon after our own daughter's diagnosis in 2003. In most cases we also work with their school and provider, all in an effort to lessen their burden.

First, we need to gain access to newly diagnosed families around the country so a major strategy we have is create partnerships with Children's Hospitals so that they can recommend our free services to their newly diagnosed families. Secondly, we attend school nurse conferences where we provide the latest in diabetes education and introduce our care coordination services. Lastly, we continue to educate ourselves, give presentations and write papers on the subject of caring for children with Type 1 Diabetes.
Today, we serve 3-4 new families every day. We utilize a family-centered approach that considers engagement, care coordination and the psycho-social impact to be critical in the health trajectory of a child with T1D as well as their caregivers.

We developed our care coordination software, BlueLoop, in 2004 and have kept the technology current as the needs of the T1D community shift. We have grown the number of free subscriptions each year of our existence topping 20,000 subscribers in 2019.
We have established relationships with leading authorities on the subject of T1D and had evidence-based, peer reviewed research conducted on the services we provide.

We begin 2024 with gratitude and anticipation for having served a record number of families and school nurses for over 20 years. Serving 4,000 plus new people every year means we are growing and the need for our services are great. Providers, CDEs, school nurses and now research all attest to the effectiveness of our delivery model a triad of care coordination tools (BlueLoop), diabetes education and emotional support focused on newly diagnosed families.

What's next is forming as many new partnerships with T1D organizations as possible to get the word out.
We are hoping to raise more funds in order to expand our reach through additional marketing and communication channels. There are 50 children diagnosed each day, and we only are able to get to 3 to 4 of them, so we have a lot of work to do.