On May 25, 2018, Vancouver Skating Club (VSC) and Bantam Female North Shore Avalanche Hockey teamed up for a donate-to-skate event in support of Team Cassie and Friends. With over fifty people in attendance, the event, organized by long-time C+F community members Lorna and Naomi Bauer, raised over $600 for kids and families affected by [...]
Each year students at St. Pius X (SPX) Elementary School in North Vancouver put their talents on display at their annual variety show to raise funds for a local charity. This year, thanks to SPX alum and C+F volunteer Alison Legge, those funds will go to help kids and families affected by Juvenile Arthritis [...]
Cassie and Friends Society, in partnership with Arthritis Consumer Experts, is leading a call for the BC Government to drastically improve the outlook of children with SJIA by allowing reimbursement coverage for canakinumab for the small number of children who need it. Our campaign for equitable access has now reached the media, Premier John Horgan and Minister [...]
In September of 2014, summer ended and our three daughters headed to back school - Anika into grade 4, Jaylene to grade 3 and Claire starting preschool. With school routines starting up again, life seemed back to normal. Then, out of the blue, Jaylene began complaining about a rash she had noticed on her [...]
Cassie and Friends organized our first-ever advocacy session + workshop in February 2016 - not long before the BC 2017 Election started heating up. Now, as we barrel toward election day on May 9th, we are ready to act - and we need your help! Under the expert guidance of our partners, Arthritis Consumer Experts, Cassie and [...]
ACT NOW: SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION AT CHANGE.ORG JIA affects approximately 24,000 infants to teens in BC and Canada, or 3 in every 1,000, making it one of the most common causes of chronic disability in children. Ten to 20 percent of children with JIA have Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (SJIA), a severe and [...]
Have you seen ivivva's awesome #GirlsofAdventure campaign on Instagram? It got us thinking about all the brave, inspiring and relentless girls we know in our community who never stop following their dreams even while battling childhood rheumatic diseases like Juvenile Arthritis and Lupus each and every day! Our friends at ivivva agreed and decided to feature two inspiring girls in our [...]
There's no doubt, we know some of the best kids around - and this "birthday girl" mentioned below is definitely one of them! We recently received a generous donation from an anonymous family and we wanted to send a big thank you to their amazing daughter. We were especially touched to read the accompanying [...]
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