Fresh Slice Cares…about Juvenile Arthritis Cassie + Friends is excited to share that Fresh Slice Pizza’s charitable foundation, Fresh Slice Cares, is donating $1600 to help spread Juvenile Arthritis (JA) awareness and keep affected kids active through Team Cassie + Friends! The goal of the Fresh Slice Cares Foundation is to “Help [...]
Congrats, Dr. Andrea Knight! The Cassie + Friends community is proud to celebrate Dr. Andrea Knight for receiving a prestigious research grant from the CARRA-Arthritis Foundation. Dr. Knight is the only lead investigator from Canada to receive an award this year - which is a big deal! Dr. Knight [...]
Youth Mental Health Strategy Funding Announcement NEWS RELEASE Two Canadian teams awarded new funding to study mental illness in youth with rheumatic diseases. Brain Canada and Cassie + Friends unveil the recipients of the Addressing Mental Health in Paediatric Rheumatic Diseases Team Grants program. Source: Brain Canada MONTREAL, April [...]
Let's Crush JA by recycling your bottles and cans or starting your very own bottle drive! Simply collect your bottles and cans, select how/where you'd like to return them, and Voila! Bottle Recycle Depots: Regional Recycling Depots (8 Branches) - find a location near you Bring your bottles/cans in clear plastic bags to [...]
It is not easy being rare. Being rare means that there is not a lot of knowledge, research, and treatment options available for youth and families affected by systemic autoinflammatory diseases (SAIDs). And that is exactly what the recently formed Can-SAID advisory group, a branch of Cassie + Friends (C+F), wants to change. [...]
Cassie + Friends is proud to introduce our first-ever practicum student, Jillian Wickert. Welcome, Jillian! Jillian is a student at the University of Alberta (U of A) doing a Master’s Degree in Community Engagement within the School of Public Health. Jillian not only has an interest in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and chronic illness, [...]
Three-year-old Katherine can keep up with other kids now, but that wasn't always the case... When Alana noticed her daughter was limping at the playground, she didn't know what to think - especially when the limp didn't go away. She decided to bring her to a doctor to be examined. After weeks of testing [...]
If you follow Cassie + Friends to some degree of closeness, you are probably familiar with our much-used phrase “Juvenile Arthrtis and other rheumatic diseases.” Why say this long-fangled phrase when the majority of people that Cassie + Friends supports have Juvenile Arthrtis? When 10,000 of the 24,000 children in youth with rheumatic disease are [...]
July 2022 Update: Medication Alert Dear Community, Please find below an important message from our Medical Advisory Committee on behalf of Canadian Pediatric Rheumatologists. ***MEDICAL ADVISORY UPDATE*** July 2022 Re: Actemra (tocilizumab) Shortage There is a shortage of the subcutaneous form of Actemra (tocilizumab) in Canada. This is likely to last several weeks at [...]
An exciting raffle is coming soon! Help Cassie + Friends transform kids' lives through cutting-edge research, education and unprecedented connections for the childhood rheumatic disease community across BC. You might just win 3 nights at the luxurious Fairmount Chateau Whistler. Please email ciara@cassieandfriends.ca if you have any questions. [...]
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