July 2024

April 2024

Youth Mental Health Strategy Funding Announcement

By |April 10th, 2024|Advocacy, Blog, Current Research, Future Research, Home Page, Mental Health, Mental Health (Caregivers), Mental Health (For Youth), News, Research|

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 [...]

October 2023

OPT-JIA Premedication Trial

By |October 17th, 2023|Blog, Current Research, Future Research, Injection, JIA, Medication, Research|

When I first heard of the medication Ondansetron, I couldn’t help but think about how its name sounded like a character from the Transformers movies. While this medication doesn’t fight space aliens or have a special effects budget, it does hold the capacity to TRANSFORM lives. How might you ask?Methotrexate is a [...]

December 2022

C+F Youth Ambassador Program: 2022/23 Cohort

By |December 20th, 2022|

C+F Youth Ambassador Program: 2022/23 Cohort In 2022, we launched a new youth program aimed at cultivating future leaders! Over the course of a one-year commitment, C+F Youth Ambassadors receive support to plan and launch their own special project as well as training to give back as an official Cassie + Friends Youth Mentor. [...]

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October 2022

How Cassie + Friends is Helping to Improve Juvenile Arthritis Care around the Globe!

By |October 4th, 2022|Current Research, Research|

Thanks to the generous support of our donors, we are very excited to now be recruiting for our second International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pediatric Rheumatology in the Brown Lab (http://kbrownlab.ca) at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute. Read below to hear from our first fellow, Dr. Lovro Lamot, a Pediatric Rheumatologist from Zagreb, Croatia, [...]

February 2022

Calling all youth with JIA & their parents — How do you bounce back from JIA pain?

By |February 3rd, 2022|Current Research, JIA, Research|

We need 319 youth and parents to help us understand how we can best support kids and families to be RESILIENT in the face of Juvenile Arthritis. Take the survey to share your experiences now: JIA Survey If you’re like many youth and parents in our community, managing the pain [...]

September 2021

What if there were more answers on your child’s path with rheumatic disease? 

By |September 2nd, 2021|Current Research, Research|

C+F Research Partner Highlight: The Brown Lab at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute in Vancouver, BC. With your help, Cassie + Friends has now invested nearly $500,000 in the Brown Lab in support of their work to discover less invasive tests and more precise treatments for children affected by juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic diseases, [...]

May 2021

March 2021

The impact of JIA pain and its treatments on parents

By |March 19th, 2021|Current Research, Injection, Mental Health, Mental Health (Caregivers), Research|

“Every furrow of her brow makes me want to stop” If you have ever struggled to give your child an injection or to manage your child’s - or your own - emotions about their treatments, you are not alone!  In the lead up to our Methotrexate session, we talked with Yvonne Brandelli, PhD Student, [...]

December 2020

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