Helping to build a sense of community around Diabetes.
Summer
Camperships
The Jim’s Team 4 Diabetes will be sponsoring a select number of kids across the USA to attend summer camp that is specific for Type 1 Diabetic youths at NO COST.
Student
Scholarships
Jim’s Team 4 Diabetes offers College Scholarships up to $1,000 for kids with Type 1 Diabetes. To be eligible, the applicant must be a senior student attending high school in the USA that will graduate in 2025.
Financial
Aid
GROWING UP TYPE ONE DIABetes
For our second segment, meet Amelia Schaefer from Overland Park, Kansas, who was first diagnosed with Type One at the age of ten. She and her family gave the Jim’s Team 4 Diabetes permission to share her story. Amelia is currently a senior in high school as of this writing (November, 2024).
Eight simple words. Eight words changed my life forever. Within five seconds, my childhood innocence, and entire life as I knew it was stripped away from me. “I’m sorry but you have type one diabetes” is the phrase that has played repeatedly in my head for nearly seven years.
TYPE ONE DIABETES
There's really no such thing as "Under Control"
No matter how hard they try as children or how hard they work as an adult, the Blood Glucose levels of a person with Type One will not truly stabilize.
Life with Type One means good days, bad days, highs, lows, constant monitoring, insulin dosing, carb counting, and adjusting every day.
source: getdiabetesright.org
OUR
MISSION
Jim’s Team 4 Diabetes is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Foundation created by its namesake (Jim Loria) after being diagnosed with Late Onset Type 1 Diabetes on June 11, 2021 at the age of 66. A sports team marketing professional for over 40 years, Jim has devoted much of his personal time and energy throughout his career to helping raise well over a million dollars from several hundred’s of charitable events across the country that assisted local organizations and individual families in need wherever his job brought him.
Seeing first hand the many life changes and challenges that Diabetes presents on a daily basis, Jim has embraced this new “calling in life” and plans to use his passion for charitable service to help others in need that are affected by this disease that has no known cure.
Fast
Facts
FAST FACTS ON DIABETES
WHAT IS TYPE 1 DIABETES?
- Means insulin dependency for life
- Diagnosed at any age
- Threatens devastating complications
- Demands meticulous planning to avoid life-threatening situations
WHAT TYPE 1 DIABETES IS NOT?
- A lifestyle disease
- Something you outgrow
- Contagious
- Caused by sugar
- Preventable
- Curable (yet)
(Source: BeyondType1.org)
OUR
PURPOSE
To help support families across the country where possible that often cannot afford the cost of their Diabetic equipment and supplies. To provide college scholarships for high school seniors living with Type 1 Diabetes that seek to advance their education at a 2-or-4-year college and or trade school within the USA. As well, to provide Free Summer Camperships for T1D kids.
The Jim’s Team will also look to help support programs in U.S. cities that fill a critical need for Diabetes.
JIM'S
STORY
I will never forget the date of June 11, 2021. It was the day my body felt like it was failing me and I was not prepared to hear the words my family doctor would tell me within an hour of my arrival at the Allina Health Clinic in Blaine, Minnesota. Words that I had Type 1 Diabetes.
I sat there stunned in silence. Even my doctor didn’t know quite what to make of my situation? He informed me that my Blood Sugar levels were off the charts and had surpassed the highest levels the clinic’s lab could even detect. I would be told my level measured 454 at the time and my A1C tested out at 11.3. My internal organs – pancreas, gallbladder, liver, and kidneys – were on the verge of shutting down and each elevated 2-to-3 times their normal levels.