November 2021

Meet our new Research Chair and join us tomorrow for #GivingTuesday!

By |November 25th, 2021|CREW, Research|

Will you join Dr. Batthish as part of our CREW? In anticipation of #GivingTuesday, we’re very excited to introduce you to Dr. Michelle Batthish, our new Research Chair and one of the driving forces behind the Cassie + Friends Care and Research Network - or CREW for short! Read below why Dr. Batthish urges [...]

Will you join Jeremy as part of our CREW?

By |November 24th, 2021|Advocacy, Calgary, CREW, JIA, Scotiabank Charity Challenge|

There are lots of ways to show your support for the Juvenile Arthritis community on #GivingTuesday - like, share, educate and, of course, donate. To get inspired, we thought you might like to meet Jeremy from our Calgary CREW. On Nov 30th, we hope you'll join Jeremy and our CREW of parents/friends all across [...]

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, [...]

July 2021

Meet Sofia. She’s transforming lives in the JA community as a Cassie + Friends Youth Research Advisor.

By |July 13th, 2021|Advice, Current Events, Research, Vancouver|

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 [...]

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, [...]

February 2021

December 2020

October 2020

JIA-PaCER

By |October 28th, 2020|

Learn about the JIA-PaCER 2021 Program In a partnership between UCAN CAN-DU, Cassie + Friends Society and the University of Calgary Continuing Education, JIA-PaCER was a 12-month, part-time, fully-funded, virtual program where applicants learned alongside other youth about how to conduct research with, by and for patients in their communities. At the end of the [...]

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