Guides + Downloadable Resources
Practical tools to support care, learning, and everyday decisions
These guides and resources provide practical support for families, youth, healthcare providers, and educators. From daily routines to school planning, treatments, appointments, and transitions, they help turn information into action.
Some resources are downloadable, while others connect you to helpful C+F toolkits and support pages. Use them as needed at home, in clinical settings, or within schools and community spaces.
Featured Resource
School Action Plan
A practical action plan to help families plan for the school year, communicate with teachers, explore accommodations, and support students from elementary through post-secondary.
Resource Categories
Newly Diagnosed
Treatments + Medications
Pain + Symptom Management
MentalHealth
Transition + Independence
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Elementary School Toolkit
Tools to help families communicate with schools, plan accommodations, and support elementary school students.
Secondary School Toolkit
Tools to help families communicate with schools, plan accommodations, and support secondary school students.
Secondary School Toolkit
Tools to help families communicate with schools, plan accommodations, and support post-secondary students.
School Action Plan
A practical planning tool to help families outline symptoms, supports, accommodations, and school-day needs.
Injection Support Guide
Tools and strategies to make injections more manageable for children, youth, and caregivers.
Needle Fear: Make a Plan
A planning handout to help families prepare for needles, reduce fear, and build a support strategy.
Needle Fear Workshop
Workshop slides and resources for understanding needle fear and supporting children through medical procedures.
Numbing Cream
A simple resource to help families understand how numbing cream can reduce needle-related pain.
Mental Health Resources
Support tools for youth, caregivers, and families navigating anxiety, stress, depression, and chronic illness.
Mental Health for Youth
Resources for children and teens managing stress, anxiety, pain, confidence, and life with rheumatic disease.
Mental Health for Caregivers
Tools for parents and caregivers managing stress, chronic sorrow, emotional fatigue, and self-care.
Transition Checklist
A checklist to help youth prepare for post-secondary life, independence, and managing care as a young adult.
Pain, Symptom Management
Resources to help families understand chronic pain, coping strategies, fatigue, flares, and emotional support.
Treatment Impact Graphic
A visual resource about the impact JIA treatments and treatment-related pain can have on parents and caregivers.
Backpack Safety
Learn how to choose, fit and pack a backpack properly to help prevent shoulder and neck pain, headaches and unnecessary strain.
Pain, Symptom Plan
Help your child to get the care they need by using our Symptom Management Plan template.
How to Use These Guides
How to use these handy resources.
These guides are designed to be practical, flexible, and easy to use. They can be downloaded for quick reference, shared with healthcare teams or educators, and revisited as needs evolve.
They are intended to support real-life situations — not just provide information.
“Having something we could download and refer back to made a huge difference. It helped us stay organized and feel more in control.”
— Parent, Cassie + Friends Community
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