Hello, my name is Grace Parker Palidwor. I was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis when I was 18 months old. In the first few years of my diagnosis, I don’t remember much except that I believed that every child was exactly like me. I believed that all my friends woke up with stiff joints [...]
A vital part of the work we do at Cassie + Friends stems from our involvement in important research in the pediatric rheumatic (PR) disease community. Over the past decade, we’ve helped endow a research chair, fund a new international post-doc, build one of only three PR labs in Canada, launch a pain-app and [...]
Meet Oliver! A vibrant young boy with autoinflammatory disease living in Williams Lake, BC! Oliver has always been the type of child that brings joy to everyone around him. We couldn’t go to the grocery store without the smiling baby drawing everyone near. His first year of life was good. He was a perfectly [...]
2018 marked Cassie and Friends' 11th year participating in the Scotiabank Charity Challenge and each and every year we end the race in the same way - saying, wow, this was the best year ever. We can never top this! Every year, thanks to friends like you, we are wrong! This June, with your [...]
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 [...]
How many Kids on your Block have "it"? 1 in 1000. Or, to put that into perspective, about 1 to 2 kids in every elementary school. That's why we're on a mission to raise awareness about Juvenile Arthritis (JA) in every community where a kid is affected – in other words, all of them. Today [...]
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