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The THREE TO BE mission is to benefit children like Taylor, Cole and Brody. Its goal is to raise funds to support and advance the development of therapies, treatments and programs for children living with neurological disorders.
THREE TO BE is a registered Charity (BN : 805824513RR0001) that is conducting research at the Hospital for Sick Children and Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital to provide a multidisciplinary approach that marries laboratory and clinical rehabilitative research. Scientists from both institutions are using the funds to:
- Hire doctors and researchers to focus solely on children’s neurological disorders
- Provide new scientists with prizes to come up with innovative research ideas to help develop new therapies, treatments and approaches for children living with neurological disorders
- Provide grants to help fund initiatives that can further advance this area of research
Three to Be Initiatives:
Disorders and diseases of the brain represent one of the largest unmet medical needs in Canada and amongst those, childhood neurological disorders are perhaps the most-neglected. This is particularly surprising since this group of disorders, which ranges from cerebral palsy to Downs syndrome to autism, hits the most vulnerable individuals in our society, our children. There is a pressing need for research aimed at understanding how and why these disorders occur, and at coming up with potential new therapies. However, there are currently no Canadian foundations or funding agencies aimed at targeting research and therapies for the broad field of childhood neurological disorders, a gap that THREE TO BE hopes to fill.
How can we hope to help with childhood neurological disorders?
The good news is that the developing brain is incredibly plastic and resilient, and is built to be modified as a function of new experiences and inputs. As a consequence, there is tremendous hope amongst those who work on these disorders that we can find and put into practice new therapeutic strategies that will make a difference.
