May 2025

#WhyIRun: Meet Team Cassie + Friends Montreal!

By |May 7th, 2025|#WhyIRun, Blog, JIA, Montreal, Quebec, Stories|

#WhyIRun: Meet Team Cassie + Friends Montréal! La version française suit la version anglaise. We’re so excited that on May 25, 2025, Montréal will host its FIRST EVER Team Cassie + Friends walk/run! Read more about the amazing families that will be joining us below—and then join kids like Valerina, Beatrice, and Brooklyn [...]

#WhyIRun: Marley’s Story

By |May 5th, 2025|#WhyIRun, Blog, JIA, Stories, Virtually Anything|

#WhyIRun: Marley's Story Meet Marley: A Little Fighter Powering Big Change Meet Marley, a brave three-year-old at the heart of Team Cassie + Friends’ Virtual Run crew, #MarleysJointForces. This June, her family and friends are lacing up to raise awareness and funds for kids like Marley living with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). Inspired [...]

April 2025

October 2024

#WhyIRun – Audrey’s Story

By |October 2nd, 2024|#WhyIRun, Blog, Hamilton, JIA, Ontario, Stories|

#WhyIRun – Audrey’s Story In this #WhyIRun, we hear from the Rose family, who share their daughter Audrey’s journey with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). Audrey and her family will be participating in our upcoming run/walk at Hamilton’s Road2Hope marathon on November 2, 2024, where they are not only the top fundraiser for [...]

August 2024

#WhyIRun – The Saskatchewan Pediatric Rheumatology Research IDEA Lab

By |August 24th, 2024|#WhyIRun, Research, Saskatchewan, Stories|

#WhyIRun The Saskatchewan Pediatric Rheumatology Research IDEA Lab Did you know that the University of Saskatchewan has one of the longest, continuously operating pediatric rheumatology research programs in the world? Read more to learn why the IDEA lab is proud to partner with Cassie + Friends and support activities like our annual [...]

June 2024

#WhyIRun – Lillian, Our Rheumatic Disease Warrior

By |June 19th, 2024|#WhyIRun, Ontario, Ottawa, sJIA, Stories|

#WhyIRun For Lillian - Our Rheumatic Disease Warrior Our journey with Rheumatic Disease began in June 2022. After 11 days of fever, Lillian, then just shy of her 3rd birthday, was seen, diagnosed, and treated for Incomplete Kawasaki disease at CHEO (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario). Luckily, she responded to the IVIG treatment and [...]

May 2024

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