The Loop for Life Foundation, Inc. will continue to support the following organizations and will be donating the Loop for Life funds to local charities or organizations that provide support and research for diseases that have impacted friends, family and other local people associated with the Loop for Life.
St. Mary's Child Center is a not-for-profit early Intervention center focused on serving the needs of very young children (ages three to five). A large number of these children are not served by other public or private social services. The St. Mary's Child Center experience gives these children a positive educational and emotional environment. Together, they can begin to normalize their lives, contribute socially and learn alongside other children their age. Without the caring people and positive atmosphere of St. Mary's Child Center, these potentially problem children could become severely troubled, with the threat of growing into seriously distressed adult men and women. St. Mary's is dedicated to making a positive influence on children before they are six years old. Early childhood intervention is important to healthy growth. Research confirms that for every dollar spent on high-quality early education, there is a savings of seventeen dollars in reduced intervention costs.
Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia is a neurodegenerative disorder that attacks one's ability to walk, often leaving their victims in wheelchairs. This is an inherited neurological disorder that affects the motor neurons and causes progressive spasticity (stiffness) and weakness of the leg and hip muscles. There are at least twenty types of HSP and the genetic causes are known for eleven. Most people have symptom onset between the second and fourth decades of life, but it can start at any age from early childhood through very late adulthood. The disorder is estimated to affect some 20,000 people in the U.S.
Indiana Unirsity Dance Marathon is a not-for-prfit that supports the Ryan White Infectious Disease Center at Rily Hospital for Children. This offers a controlled environment in which yound patients with infectios diseases can recieve special care from teams of specialists.
Fairbanks Hospital is an addiction treatment center, who understand the challenges facing those who struggle with alcohol and drug ause and the chronic illness of additction. With the efforts and resources on addition recovery, Fairbanks is taking steps toward a better future not just for the men, women and adolescents who struggle with addiction, but for the families and communities in which those individuals reside.
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