Tips for Creating a College Support Group
- First contact CDN, via email or through the "Register A New Chapter" form
- Talk with your schools health services and see if they have an established diabetes program or someone who is particularly interested in diabetes- Your health services can help you contact other diabetics on campus and let you know how many there are
- See if there are any diabetic faculty or faculty with connections to diabetes on campus that would like to get involved
- Contact your local JDRF branch
Setting up your Website
- Email CDN all of the information that you would like posted- send in a word document, set up in the same format as the school pages (look at the Umass Amherst page for example).
- Set up your own Facebook page – hyperlink your facebook page to the facebook icon on your web page (Post updates about the set up on the main CDN facebook page)
- Set up a Twitter account for your CDN- you can make live updates and announcements that people can get immediately and see on your website
- Once CDN has set up your school's webpage- update your calender and announcements boxes regularly to keep your members and others up to date