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Introducing Kerry Howard, the winner of this year's Optimism Award! Every year, APDA Northwest honors a member of our Parkinson's community who has made a significant impact by living the APDA motto of “Strength in optimism. Hope in progress.”
Kerry was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2016 and in a short time has made a giant impact! Among Kerry’s many accomplishments that led to her selection as this year’s Optimism Award winner includes being a volunteer, advocate, and ambassador for her PD community, working on policy issues, and lobbying Alaska’s congressional delegation about Parkinson’s concerns. Kerry also helped establish the first Rock Steady Boxing program in Juneau, Alaska, and procured funding for this program to go virtual during the pandemic so that people from all over the Northwest (and the country!) could participate. And her friends and PD peers will tell you, she is an optimistic force to be reckoned with!
Join APDA in congratulating Kerry Howard and celebrating her strength in optimism!
Kerry Howard Juneau Rock Steady Boxing
Kerry was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2016 and in a short time has made a giant impact! Among Kerry’s many accomplishments that led to her selection as this year’s Optimism Award winner includes being a volunteer, advocate, and ambassador for her PD community, working on policy issues, and lobbying Alaska’s congressional delegation about Parkinson’s concerns. Kerry also helped establish the first Rock Steady Boxing program in Juneau, Alaska, and procured funding for this program to go virtual during the pandemic so that people from all over the Northwest (and the country!) could participate. And her friends and PD peers will tell you, she is an optimistic force to be reckoned with!
Join APDA in congratulating Kerry Howard and celebrating her strength in optimism!
Kerry Howard Juneau Rock Steady Boxing
Hey Fellow Boxers! Here is an opportunity you may be interested in. You likely already know that cramped handwriting, known as micrographia, affects an estimated 75% of people living with Parkinson’s disease. Therapeutic exercises, like handwriting practice, could potentially help — improving handwriting, increasing brain activity, and keeping patients more connected to who they are.
As part of their commitment to people living with PD, Neurocrine Biosciences created Parkinson’s Cards to HeroesTM, a free, community-based program honoring everyday heroes through handwritten letters from people living with PD. They would love to have you participate!
The program was designed to help motivate people with Parkinson’s disease to keep up their handwriting exercises by writing messages of gratitude to heroes around the nation, including those at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic keeping us safe during these unprecedented times.
Here’s how it works: People with Parkinson’s disease, or their loved ones or caregivers, can visit PDcardstoheroes.com and sign up to request a free kit of custom greeting cards.
Neurocrine Biosciences will mail you a kit, which includes:
Five custom cards, including exercise grids
An instruction sheet, including five sample messages that you can choose to transcribe—or write your own!
A pre-paid, pre-addressed envelope to Operation Gratitude, which distributes the completed cards to heroes, including our frontline medical workers. Once the heartfelt messages are finished, simply pack up and send all your handwritten cards in the envelope provided.
As our frontline heroes keep fighting, we can all keep fighting too. They encourage you to request your kit or pass along this opportunity to your loved ones today.
As part of their commitment to people living with PD, Neurocrine Biosciences created Parkinson’s Cards to HeroesTM, a free, community-based program honoring everyday heroes through handwritten letters from people living with PD. They would love to have you participate!
The program was designed to help motivate people with Parkinson’s disease to keep up their handwriting exercises by writing messages of gratitude to heroes around the nation, including those at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic keeping us safe during these unprecedented times.
Here’s how it works: People with Parkinson’s disease, or their loved ones or caregivers, can visit PDcardstoheroes.com and sign up to request a free kit of custom greeting cards.
Neurocrine Biosciences will mail you a kit, which includes:
Five custom cards, including exercise grids
An instruction sheet, including five sample messages that you can choose to transcribe—or write your own!
A pre-paid, pre-addressed envelope to Operation Gratitude, which distributes the completed cards to heroes, including our frontline medical workers. Once the heartfelt messages are finished, simply pack up and send all your handwritten cards in the envelope provided.
As our frontline heroes keep fighting, we can all keep fighting too. They encourage you to request your kit or pass along this opportunity to your loved ones today.
Did you guys see the article in April edition of the Costco Connection magazine? They talk about the benefits of exercise & mention RSB!
http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/202004/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=1&folio=85#pg88
http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/202004/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=1&folio=85#pg88
ROCK STEADY BAND: Bart Koehler sent the following link to a YouTube video by the Rock Steady Boys. He also noted there's a new Rock Steady Boxing class at the Parkinson's Wellness Recovery Center in Arizona! Rock on! ❤️https://youtu.be/OSxnj0rX6OI
When we travel we stop in to available Parkinson’s exercise classes. Here we are in Maui, Hawaii in January, 2020 at the Maui Family YMCA with Erin Davis
Strength in Unity---Everyone got tattoos! ;)
Rock Steady on NBC...
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