Meghan, Represents Ohio on Capital Hill.

Our own Northeast Ohio's JDRF child, Meghan returns from JDRF Children’s Congress on Capitol Hill where she was among Nick Jonas, Mary Tyler Moore and Sugar Ray Leonard... all advocating for Federal Funding for Diabetes Research.

Meghan was one of 150 children throughout the U.S. selected to represent her state on Capitol Hill earlier this week to remind Congress and the Administration of the critical need to find a cure for a disease they live with every day— type 1 (juvenile) diabetes.

Nick Jonas, Mary Tyler Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard and kids with type 1 diabetes testified with them before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on the need for funding for type 1 diabetes research. 

Download Meghan's Story about Her Life with Type 1 Diabetes.

Promise to Remember Me....

President Barack Obama met with more than 150 kids and teenagers with type 1 diabetes on Tuesday – a high point of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Children’s Congress, the largest grassroots event held in support of research for type 1 diabetes.  From June 22-24, children and teenagers representing all 50 states took part in Children’s Congress, which included the White House visit with the President, a Town Hall panel of athletes and celebrities impacted by diabetes, individual visits for each kid delegate with their senators and representatives, and a Senate hearing at which Nick Jonas, Mary Tyler Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard and kids – all touched by type 1 diabetes – testified on the need for funding for type 1 diabetes research.

Every two years, JDRF International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore and over a hundred children with type 1 diabetes gather in Washington, D. C.  to meet face-to-face with some of the top decision-makers in the U.S. government.  The children, ages 4 to 17, represent all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As participants in JDRF's Children's Congress, they have a unique and empowering opportunity to help Members of Congress understand what life with type 1 diabetes is like and why research to find the cure for diabetes and its complications is so critical.

Children's Congress will took place on June 22-24, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

For more information about Children's Congress