Every year a global campaign takes place to raise awareness for diabetes. The entire month is celebrated as National Diabetes Awareness Month (NDAM) in the United States, Canada and other countries, Nov. 14 is World Diabetes Day, and Nov. 1 is T1Day. Who better than JDRF to make sure that the T1D community is properly recognized in November and throughout the year? By sharing information about type 1 diabetes (T1D), dispelling myths and encouraging your friends to do the same—you are helping to raise awareness and unite the T1D community.

Through our new campaign, T1D Looks Like Me, we will showcase the faces and stories of people who feel the real impact of T1D day in and day out. T1D looks like the high school basketball player who checks his blood sugar on the bench during his game. T1D looks like the race car driver who at 225 MPH is at the top of his career and won’t let this disease stop him. T1D is a complicated, tiring, and unpredictable disease that too many of us know too well. T1D Looks Like Me shows and shares the many ages, stages and triumphs of the T1D community. Our shared vision of creating a world without T1D is what binds all of us together.

Features of the month include:

• T1D Looks Like Me photo generator
• Social wall collection of other #T1DLooksLikeMe photos
• Merchandise available for purchase in the JDRF store
• Thunderclap-On November 1st many supports donated their social media status to JDRF. By doing so—and encouraging  friends to do the same—we helped spread the word about NDAM
• Youtube videos you can share to spread awareness of T1D
• Take a selfie with the USA Today special “United for Diabetes” insert (published from November 13-15) and tag it with #T1DLooksLikeMe
• Be one of the first 100 people to start a personal fundraising campaign or schedule a Team JDRF community event and receive a free T1D Looks Like Me t-shirt

Check out www.jdrf.org/T1DLooksLikeMe for other ways to get involved!