Diabetes in School Children: A Recommendations and Resource Guide for Pennsylvania School Personnel  Diabetes in School Children: A Recommendations and Resource Guide for Pennsylvania School Personnel was developed to provide schools with key information, tools and resources that help them effectively manage diabetes in students.  This guide is based on national best practices for creating and ensuring a safe, nurturing learning environment for students with diabetes.  School administrators, nurses, teachers, office personnel and other staff, along with parents and students, all play an important role in diabetes management, and important information and tools are included for all of these stakeholders.  This guide is also designed to define and clarify schools’ diabetes management roles and responsibilities.  Accordingly, an entire section of this guide is devoted to summarizing state and federal laws related to diabetes management in schools.

The Pennsylvania Diabetes Prevention & Control Program is an integral part of the Pennsylvania Department of Health.  The program strives to reduce the burden of diabetes in Pennsylvania and improve the quality of life of those Pennsylvanians having diabetes by preventing and controlling its complications.  Funding received from federal and state sources ensure that program activities are focused on:

• creating partnerships with communities, provider and health care systems and worksites and schools to effectively deal with diabetes and diabetes related issues
• supporting professional education through training programs, information dissemination, and collaboration with professional organizations and other community partners and contractors. 
• working with stakeholders from across the state who are members of the Pennsylvania Diabetes Action Partnership to develop and implement recommendations of the The Pennsylvania Diabetes Action Plan 2007 to tackle diabetes and diabetes related issues
• promoting and funding culturally appropriate strategies to target disproportionately affected populations for interventions
• collecting data on vital statistics (birth rates, death rates, and others), from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (hospital admissions and discharges), and other sources to guide program planning and direction and to publish The Burden of Diabetes in Pennsylvania 2007.