At the end of 2013, we reported that the San Diego-based Behavioural Diabetes Institute (BDI) was closure down for the predictable future. Today, we're happy to amend that with new information: BDI president Dr. Throwaway Polonsky has let us make out that patc their San Diego group programs for the first half of 2014 have been cancelled, the BDI lives on!

This first-of-its-kind not-profit founded in 2003 has been addressing the physiological struggles of living with diabetes like nary ace else in the world — with workshops and programs connected topics like depression and spouse & partner bear out? Information technology's been headed by the successful and beloved Dr. William Polonsky, whom we consider a dear friend has been one of the leaders in this mental wellness and diabetes field for many years.

ICYMI, we'd divided the newsworthiness after receiving this substance on Dec. 12:

To our friends of BDI,

2013 began as an exciting year for BDI. Thanks to the arrival of new financing and new resources, we had the opportunity to begin the development of an expansion of our services to a global audience. As you know, given the growing prevalence of diabetes around the world, and the lack of quality selective information about how to manage the activity and emotional challenges cladding anyone WHO lives with diabetes 24/7, every day of the year, such services are painfully needed.

Simply — quite unexpectedly — BDI has saved itself facing a financial crisis that, in spite of all efforts, we have non been able to overcome. Consequently, BDI must revise its trading operations to reflect the reality of insufficient resources. For the immediate future, BDI volition exist constraining its activities to project research, the ongoing evolution of training programs for healthcare professionals, and the sale and distribution of its printed materials.

Therefore, effective immediately, BDI will be cancelling the 2014 workshops and programs, will cease issue of its newssheet, and will curtail its Diabetes Tender loving care services. Unhappily, BDI will constitute unable to pursue its efforts to make diabetes selective information and education on tap through online courses and services at this time. The BDI website will represent altered to reflect these cuts.

Please note that Drs. Polonsky, Guzman and Abascal testament be continuing to accept and see individual patients with diabetes.

All over the geezerhood, BDI has heard many of you tell your stories about living with diabetes. We know of the challenges you face, the hardships you endure, and-thankfully-the triumphs that thusly many of have achieved. And we know that many of you hold found our BDI programs and services to be helpful. No unmatchable feels sadder than us, your BDI stave, about the necessity of cutting back on what we have offered over the yore decade.

We do non bear that this will be a permanent situation, and we remain hopeful that BDI will Be resuming its programs and services in the hot future.

We sincerely give thanks each of you for your interest in and support of BDI. You have had an impact on each of us at BDI, and we wish you well A you continue on your diabetes travel. We hope and expect you volition live a long, healthy, and happy life, and delight know that you are non alone.

Card, Susan, Charla, Dennis, Liana, and Michelle,

Your BDI staff

Included was this "Give thanks You, BDI" video that really made the news hit home… and brought some tears, too.

What the heck happened? We talked with Dr. Polonsky over the earpiece and the first affair he said was, "I'm just as dumfounded as you were!" Apparently, the grants they were counting on only didn't total through. He hopes to "go on the doors open" in the next months settled on research projects alone, and then shift to a focus on CME (Continuing Medical exam Education) for diabetes educators — an orbit where he hopes more grant money will represent available in the short. They're likewise looking for at building astir a type 2 enquiry registry that would revolve about data tracking of "the touchy-feelie stuff" patients experience.

Simply a few weeks later once the New Year rolled around, apparently the situation International Relations and Security Network't Eastern Samoa dire equally earlier thought.

Polonsky shares this:

"Perhaps our declaration mistakenly overdone the state of affairs, soh let me clear up up some misunderstanding. Just about importantly, the BDI remains open for business, so delight, delight don't bid us a 'lovesome adieu'! Yes, we have decided to cancel our local group programs for the first half of this yr, simply we are still:

  • Developing and cathartic new online programs (our newest program, for partners and spouses of adults with character 1 diabetes, just launched)
  • Conducting important explore in behavioral diabetes (for example, working with our colleagues at TCOYD to build a new Online Research Registry)
  • Seeing scores of individual patients all day who are struggling with diabetes
  • Continuing to distribute our well-regarded print materials, suchlike the Diabetes Etiquette card, to patients and professionals around the human race
  • Nonindustrial new medical education courses for wellness care professionals who are anxious to gain expertness regarding the psychological side of diabetes
  • Responding every day to the questions, concerns and needs of people with diabetes around the world via phone and e-mail"

That's A-one news, of course. Every bit mentioned, BDI has just launched the indorsement in its series of online programs, this one and only called Just For Partners, a no-cost automated program for spouses and partners of adults with typewrite 1 diabetes. As you may remember, their first program of this sort is titled Just for Parents, focal point happening those raising T1D teens; that's been up and running for roughly a year right away, and has been viewed by several thousand people.

"As the financial climate clears, we bequeath trust to sketch our unreal San Diego in-individual group programs later in 2014.  So put on't reckoning us out yet.  The BDI is alive and kicking!" Bill says.

Hooray!!