November 2023

March 2023

Honor Student. Elite Athlete. JIA Warrior.

By |March 22nd, 2023|High School, Injection, JIA, Medication, Movement, Pain Tips, Physical Activity, Post- Secondary, Stories, Teen Transitions|

"If you told me a few years ago that I would be pursuing my dream of playing post-secondary volleyball at Dalhousie University, I would have laughed out loud because at the time it seemed near to impossible." Meet Ella. In April of 2020, I was diagnosed with a rheumatic condition you are probably [...]

July 2020

Self-care, self-injections, and other self-management tips from our youth panelists.

By |July 30th, 2020|Advice, Mental Health, Pain Tips, Teen Transitions, Virtual Youth Panel|

The Virtual Youth Panel event is now available for viewing on Youtube and IGTV. You'll find timestamps of the video on Youtube to direct you to the questions/answers you'll want to hear the most. This is an excellent resource to share with relatives, friends, sports coaches and teachers to help them understand life with [...]

June 2020

Cassie + Friends partners with SickKids to help teens conquer pain

By |June 24th, 2020|Current Research, News, Pain Tips|

Are you wondering how your child can learn to manage pain on their own? Is your teen with rheumatic disease looking for a way to stay motivated, monitor their symptoms and track how they’re feeling on a day-to-day basis? We’ve teamed up with SickKids on a research study to bring the iCanCope with Pain [...]

November 2018

3 tips for travelling with a child with a flare

By |November 9th, 2018|Advice, Pain Tips, Stories|

As stressful and painful as experiencing a flare can already be at home, the idea of travelling with a flare may sometimes seem downright impossible. With some help however, you and your child can still enjoy taking a trip together. These are Cassie and Friends community member and mother Tanya Cassidy Irwin's three tips for [...]

Emily’s story: Navigating pain, planes and biologics

By |November 9th, 2018|Pain Tips, Stories|

Tanya Cassidy Irwin is a mother and Cassie and Friends community member from Langley, BC. This is her story of navigating pain, travel, medication and the unknown throughout her daughter Emily's journey with Oligoarticular JIA.    In September 2015 there was the most subtle of hitches in our daughter Emily's step. Within three weeks she [...]

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