CENTREVILLE - More than 200 American Diabetes Association volunteer advocates from across the nation will join together in Washington, D.C., on March 5-7 for the Association's premier national advocacy event, Call to Congress. During this time, Jennifer Holdgreve along with her daughter Allison Holdgreve, Diabetes Advocates from Centreville, will meet with their members of Congress asking them to make diabetes a national priority and support efforts to Stop Diabetes here on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Attendees will include children and adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, family members of individuals living with diabetes, researchers and health care professionals. All participants are deeply committed to diabetes advocacy efforts at the local, state and federal levels.
Jennifer Holdgreve is the mother of Allison Holdgreve a second-grade student at Centreville Elementary who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 6, this is their first time participating in Call to Congress.
During scheduled meetings with Members of Congress, Holdgreve, and her daughter Allison, along with the other diabetes advocates will urge members to make a strong federal investment in the Fiscal Year 2014 Labor Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill. Specifically, advocates will ask members to allocate funding for the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, provide funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Diabetes Translation and support funding for the National Diabetes Prevention Program—all programs grounded in research and dedicated to fighting the nation's diabetes epidemic.
"Call to Congress provides diabetes advocates from across the nation with an opportunity to shine a spotlight on this deadly epidemic and urge Congress to make meaningful investments toward the fight to Stop Diabetes," said Gina Gavlak, RN, BSN, Chairman, National Advocacy Committee, American Diabetes Association. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects that by 2050 as many as one in three American adults will have diabetes unless steps are taken to prevent this. Congress must act now to fund vital diabetes research, treatment and prevention programs that could curb the trajectory of this disease and ultimately save lives."
With nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes, and another 79 million with prediabetes, this disease affects every community across the nation.
While in Washington, DC, in addition to meeting with Members of Congress, Holdgreve and her daughter Allison will participate in a series of trainings with other Call to Congress participants that will help enhance advocacy efforts back home in their local communities.
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