June 2020

Ask yourself… What do you know about JIA and other rheumatic disease research happening in Canada?

By |June 23rd, 2020|News|

 Moving Research Findings into Clinical Care  By: Dr. Elizabeth Stringer The Canadian Alliance of Pediatric Rheumatology Investigators (CAPRI) is a research network made up of pediatric rheumatologists and other researchers.  Past, present, and future research will lead to discovering new information about rheumatic conditions including long-term outcomes, medication side effects, ways to improve quality [...]

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‘Is Team Cassie + Friends now a Canada-wide event?’ (and other great questions we hope will make you want to join our virtual team!)

By |June 9th, 2020|News|

‘Is Team Cassie + Friends now a Canada-wide event?’ (and other great questions we hope will make you want to join our virtual team!)  With Team Cassie + Friends now a 100% virtual event due to COVID-19, we’ve been getting some great questions from families, rheumatology teams and other friends wanting to learn more [...]

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May 2020

Mental Health Week 2020: Alison’s journey with mental health and arthritis

By |May 7th, 2020|Mental Health, News, Teen Transitions, TMJ|

Alison Legge is a member of the Cassie + Friends Youth Leader Committee. She spoke at Cassie + Friends Family Day 2016 as a youth champion, speaking about the impact chronic disease has had on her mental health. A lot has happened since then, and Alison has learned she is not alone and there [...]

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May is Lupus Awareness Month: What you need to know about this rare autoimmune disease.

By |May 1st, 2020|Lupus, News|

May is Lupus Awareness Month and we reached out to Dr. Lori Tucker of BC Children's Hospital to learn more about this rare autoimmune disease. Thank you, Lori for providing us with this important information. By: Dr. Lori Tucker Systemic lupus erythematosus (also known as ‘lupus’ or SLE) is a rare autoimmune disease.  It [...]

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April 2020

Cassie + Friends Featured in the Toronto Star to Make Sure Kids Are Part of the Conversation

By |April 9th, 2020|Advocacy, News|

How have you felt seeing some of the familiar medications used to treat Juvenile Arthritis and other childhood rheumatic diseases, like Lupus, suddenly in the news? With clinical trials and major news articles now talking about treatments like Actemra and Plaquenil as potential answers to the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to make sure the [...]

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Cassie + Friends brings information and connection online for kids and families affected by childhood rheumatic diseases during COVID-19

By |April 8th, 2020|News|

During March and April, hospitals, labs and clinics across Canada quickly shifted gears to meet the new realities of patient care in the Covid-19 outbreak. As a result, many families were left with cancelled or postponed appointments, worries about medication shortages and questions about their child’s safety and well being. Now, during the second [...]

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February 2020

Hamilton Around the Bay Road Race

By |February 16th, 2020|

team cassie + friends Hamilton Run/walk alongside McMaster Children's Hospital Rheumatology Clinic Team in support of kids and families affected by juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic diseases in the Around the Bay Road Race! Join us for North America's oldest road race and charity challenge where we will be stepping [...]

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June 2019

$50,000 Matching Gift Campaign – Help Launch a National Online Peer Support Network

By |June 11th, 2019|News|

Anonymous donor challenges Team Cassie and Friends to rally in support of kids and families. Team Cassie and Friends has just been given a giant boost to our fundraising. An anonymous donor has committed to match dollar-for-dollar every donation made up to $50,000 until the end of July 2019. Even if you are not [...]

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May 2019

250 kids, families and friends set to attend first Edmonton Family Day

By |May 1st, 2019|Family Day, News|

"I am hoping our daughter will be able to meet other girls her age with arthritis." "Willing to do anything to learn more about JIA." "We are hoping to connect with other families that have been through the hard time of arthritis and are trying to have a normal childhood for their child." "Oh [...]

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February 2019

Puppet show helps BC Interior parents fight loss of children’s arthritis care

By |February 11th, 2019|Advocacy, Elementary, News, School Toolkit, Stories|

Last month, Cassie and Friends' Juvenile Arthritis at School Puppet Show hit the road to bring juvenile arthritis education to the Okanagan! The special puppet show, which was offered free-of-charge to schools by Cassie and Friends with support from a $10,000 grant from the Telus Friendly Futures Foundation, tells the story of Cassie - a [...]

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