The Pacific West Chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) will host the Team Hope Walk – Santa Barbara, Sunday Sept. 8 at Shoreline Park. Registration opens at 9 a.m.; the event starts at 9:30 a.m.
All proceeds support HDSA’s mission to improve the lives of people affected by Huntington’s disease (HD) and their families.
Team Hope is HDSA’s largest national grassroots fundraising event, which takes place in over 100 cities across the U.S. and has raised more than $28 million for HD since its inception in 2007.
Thousands of families, friends, co-workers, neighbors and communities walk together each year to support HDSA’s mission to improve the lives of people affected by HD and their families. For more about the event, contact Nichole Mendoza at nmendoza@hdsa.org.
Online registration and donation information can be found here.
HDSA’s Team Hope Walk Program is nationally sponsored by Neurocrine Biosciences and Teva Pharmaceuticals.
Huntington’s disease is a fatal genetic disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. HD deteriorates a person’s physical and mental abilities during their prime working years and has no cure.
Every child of a parent with HD has a 50/50 chance of inheriting the faulty gene.
Today, there are some 41,000 symptomatic Americans and more than 200,000 at-risk of inheriting the disease. The symptoms of HD are described as having ALS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s simultaneously.
Learn more at www.hdsa.org or call 800-345-HDSA.