August 2023

C+F Inventing Room: Reinventing the Injection Experience for Kids and Families Affected by JA and other childhood rheumatic diseases in Canada

By |August 31st, 2023|Advice, Advocacy, Blog, Injection, Medication|

Inspired by the Roald Dahl Charity’s Marvellous Nurse Inventing Rooms, on August 23rd, we hosted our very own C+F Inventing Room to ask the community and together envision what our C+F Injection Coping Kits should include. With the help of medical experts, parents and youth, we dove in and got to work! We started [...]

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, [...]

August 2022

What Canadian Juvenile Arthritis Families Think About Telemedicine in COVID-19

By |August 20th, 2022|Advocacy, COVID, CREW, Current Events, Research|

Canadian Pediatric Rheumatology Families in the Spotlight! We want to thank every parent and youth who participated in our survey to find out more about Canadian families' preferences and experiences with Telemedicine practices during COVID-19. Your results have been published as a scientific research paper - here's our summary below and a link to [...]

August 2021

Arthritis Awareness Month: Let’s Make Juvenile Arthritis a National Priority.

By |August 30th, 2021|Advocacy, Current Events, News|

6.5 million people are affected by arthritis in Canada and about 24,000 of them are children. Cassie + Friends is just for them. Kids like Audrey (pictured right) - diagnosed at just 18 months - need our help to make sure their health and futures are a priority, even beyond the dedicated care from [...]

March 2021

Toronto Star: Is a Pain-Free Future in Reach for kids with Arthritis?

By |March 15th, 2021|Advocacy, Current Events, Home Page|

Dear Friends + Partners, As part of our advocacy for Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month, I am pleased to let you know about a special editorial by Cassie + Friends appearing today in the Toronto Star newspaper and digitally on healthinsight.ca. Click here for a link to the full article. Your voice is so important [...]

December 2018

Top 7 Reasons to Attend a Cassie and Friends’ Family Day Conference

By |December 12th, 2018|Family Day|

What makes Family Day a life-changing experience for kids and families affected by Juvenile Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases? Here are the top 7 reasons people attend Cassie and Friends’ Family Day year after year: Knowing you are not alone.  There is simply nothing like connecting and sharing with others who understand your unique experiences [...]

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