Welcome to Heroic Diabetes
”I had no support outside the clinics I went to. I had never given a shot before, and I knew nothing about diabetes, yet there I was in charge of my own child's life on a daily basis
- A mother sharing how she felt at the time of her daughter's diagnosis. Her daughter is now a young adult who experiences repeated hospitalizations for Diabetic Ketoacidosis.
The Problem
More than 90% of children with Type 1 Diabetes and their families do not get Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT), and many insurance companies (including Medicaid) cover up to 10 hours of DSMT during the first year of diagnosis with additional hours each following year. This training is being left on the table for too many families, leaving them vulnerable to poor health outcomes and repeated hospitalizations. Additionally, children with diabetes often have unique needs like difficulty communicating symptoms, fear of needles, and social fears. Healthcare providers and clinics are doing their best to help these families, but they are often overburdened and unable to retain participants long enough for comprehensive training. Worse yet, the number of children being diagnosed continues to rise!
THE HEROIC DIABETES MISSION:
”Our mission is to be part of the daily training journey of every child with type 1 diabetes—and their family—empowering them to live their full adventure through fun, accessible, and effective diabetes education and community. With the right training, these kids will become leaders in their families and communities.
THE SOLUTION
Our solution is extremely effective (based on the best science and practice) and extremely scalable (we teach one child just as well as 300,000).
Extremely effective: Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT) is proven to significantly improve health outcomes for people living with Diabetes, and we deliver DSMT as an accredited program! This is the training families affected by Type 1 Diabetes deserve! Additionally, we have paired the science of game-based learning to better deliver DSMT to children. This is how kids want to learn! We have built an expert team of advisors to oversee our delivery system and curriculum. These leaders are laser-focused on what will help that child live a better life every day (see our growing list of partners).
Extremely scalable: Our technology sets us apart – we have the exclusive license to use the Heroic Game Day learning platform, which uses kid-driven, game-based, AI, and tokenized tools to empower children with critical life skills. This unique education platform has already improved the lives of over 10 million K-6 students over the past decade (click here for more info). Within this platform, we have gamified DSMT using the ADA’s Standards of Care, and we can guarantee learning outcomes when children spend just 23 mins/day in the game. Take a look at this video to get an idea of how this technology and real world integration is changing lives – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfwLc4SPjJo&t=1s
HOW WE REACH FAMILIES
With a simple referral from your child’s Diabetes healthcare provider, you can schedule a 30-minute appointment with our Heroic Diabetes education team and start receiving the training you deserve (Referral Form Here). To reach as many of the 350,000+ children in the U.S. living with Type 1 Diabetes as possible, we are offering partnerships to the 300+ Diabetes camps around the country to keep their campers connected all year long within our virtual platform. We extend the magic of their camps to 365 days a year and incentivize our students and their families to attend local camp programs! We welcome partnerships with any organization who supports these special families!
UNIQUE STRENGTHS OF OUR VIDEO GAME PLATFORM
- Kid-Driven: Kids receive DSMT with other T1D kids in an open virtual world (like Minecraft or Fortnite) that has been registered as an official Diabetes camp! Kids want to learn this way.
- Scalable: Our platform teaches one child as easily as it teaches millions (without additional stress on clinicians).
- Measurable: Parents can track their child’s progress from our “Heroic Parent Portal”, and our Diabetes educators can identify focus areas for education sessions.
- Involves Parents: When parents access resources from our growing list of partners in the “Parent Portal”, the child receives rewards in the game. They become a team!
- Guaranteed Outcomes: We leverage the power of video game learning to guarantee learning outcomes through daily repetition (20-30 min./day), periodic testing, skill simulation, and addressing common fears (needles, social settings, hypoglycemia). We also incentivize real-world behaviors through what we call “tokenized learning”.
- Increase Access to Diabetes Tech: We raise awareness of CGM and insulin pump technologies, including access routes (especially for vulnerable families).
- SDOH: We are uniquely able to reach families facing significant social determinants of health. Our game is optimized for any kind of laptop or computer.
- The Right Mix of Humans and AI Coaches: We deliver the best use of technology that is managed by real people. Your child will be surrounded every day by heroic learning and activities that will ispire and motivate him/her to put the work in to be successful.
Glucocity – “A video walkthrough on Glucocity”
Mission video – “A walkthrough of one of the missions in the game”
Heroic Diabetes’ gamified DSMT is powered by the world leading, kid-driven, game-based learning platform, Heroic Game Day, which utilizes daily repetition, experiential learning, and tokenized technology to give children critical life skills for success.
Click here to find out more about the platform they have fine-tuned over the last decade while working with over 10 million kids.
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