Clara barton biography childhood diabetes
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Resident Camps ~ Clara Barton and Camp Joslin
Clara Barton Camp (overnight camp)
“This is the first time I have felt like I fit in and not different than everyone else.”
IMPORTANT NOTICE-SUMMER 2025
We are returning to two camps in 2025!Girls, Ages 6-16
Diabetes? It is quietly tucked into an awesome daily schedule where life with diabetes is the norm and the most important thing is to have the time of your life with other girls who are just like you. Diabetes education is an integral part of what we do at The Barton Center. Whether off camp, in cabins, sitting poolside, trailside, or on the soccer field, there are numerous “teachable moments,” some planned, some not.
Days are filled with sports activities, arts and crafts, swimming, talent shows, casino nights, Hike to Heck (a mudhole), campfires, an occasional outdoor overnight, dances with the boys from Camp Joslin, diabetes education game shows, boating, hiking, and so much more. Activities vary
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Clara Barton Birthplace Camp, now called Clara Barton Diabetes Center, began heartfelt memories in 1964. Having attended 3-week sessions there between approximately 1964 through 1973, lasting impressions were formed and re-considered well into my present adulthood. Nine summers of my young diabetic life were spent there - in total anticipation. I oftentimes yearn for that part of my past. Having made it as far as a C. inom. T., inom was heart broken when I realized I was all grown up. Seriously. My life chose other paths.
Nestled amidst a pine grove and a rolling blanket of healthy green grass, CBBC in North Oxford, Massachusetts, was a blessing inom will never overcome. To experience the positiveness of diabetes was overwhelming at first. inom remember thinking that this disease was to be hidden; inom was ashamed and fearful. CBBC (now CDBC) - its environment, its chosen councillor/leader/ the bugle each morning, the other diabetic campers, multitudinous activities, and the boys at neighboring J
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History of Diabetes Camps & Connected in Motion
References:
[1] Maslow, Gary R, and Debra Lobato. “Diabetes summer camps: history, safety, and outcomes.” Pediatric diabetes vol. 10,4 (2009): 278-88. doi:10.1111/j.1399-5448.2008.00467.x
[2] Maslow & Lobato, “Diabetes summer camps: history, safety, and outcomes.”
[3] Maslow & Lobato, “Diabetes summer camps: history, safety, and outcomes.”
[4] “History.” The Barton Center for Diabetes Education, Inc., www.bartoncenter.org/the-barton-center-overview/history/.
[5] Caffrey, Mary. “Researchers Turn Attention to ‘Power’ of Diabetes Camps.” AJMC, 26 June 2017, www.ajmc.com/view/researchers-turn-attention-to-power-of-diabetes-camps.
[6] Caffrey, “Researchers Turn Attention to ‘Power’ of Diabetes Camps.”
[7] Sendak, Mya Deboer, et al. “Positive Youth Development at Camps for Youth with Chronic Illness: A Systematic Review of the Literature.” Journal of Youth Development, vol. 13, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 201–215., doi:10.5195/jy