The ADA’s Legal Advocacy team takes on diabetes discrimination

At the American Diabetes Association^®, helping people living with diabetes thrive is a top priority. And that’s why our Legal Advocacy department exists—to fight for fairness and end discrimination wherever it happens.

Our experts in the Legal Advocacy department work to empower people living with diabetes and their families so they can advocate for their diabetes-related rights. Steadily, these efforts are resulting in changes in existing policies and practices in every state and in all parts of daily life—at school and child care programs, at work and in commercial driving, and in the justice system.

Your support has helped us handle over 2,000 cases last year alone, that’s three times the number of cases handled annually since the ADA Legal Advocacy program began! We are not afraid to take on the big fights, such as filing a class action lawsuit against the nation’s largest public school system for its chronic failures to meet the needs of students with diabetes, and working to ensure child care programs for military families are accessible to children with diabetes. And just recently, we celebrated the culmination of two decades of advocacy on behalf of commercial drivers with insulin treated diabetes, who can now drive without the barriers that existed for many years.

Become a driver of change by supporting efforts like the ADA’s Legal Advocacy program and let’s put an end to diabetes discrimination once and for all.  Please donate today!