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Objectives:
1. To aggressively solicit funds
from public and private sources to support the
organization’s programs.
2. To fund research for the prevention,
treatment, and cure of the disease.
3. To encourage the legislature to enact public
policies that benefit sickle cell patients and
their families.
Programs:
1. Provides counseling, referral
services, and direct emergency grants to
patients in need of food, clothing, shelter,
prostheses or other necessities.
2. Sponsors a summer camp for children with
sickle cell disease (ages 7-13) where campers
are provided with positive values of their own
self-worth.
3. Assists deserving sickle cell students with
scholarships to achieve their higher education
goals.
4. Sponsors a Christmas party with food, games,
and gifts for children with sickle cell disease,
their siblings and other family members.
The Sickle Cell Disease Association of Illinois
was founded as the Midwest Association for
Sickle Cell Anemia in 1971 by concerned
physicians, researchers, business and community
people committed to improving the lives of those
suffering from sickle cell disease. We provide
an organized voice for sickle cell patients in
Illinois. The Sickle Cell Disease Association of
Illinois remains committed to improving the
lives of those with one of the sickle cell
diseases.
Over the years SCDAI has energetically sought to
provide program services - including community
education, patient referrals, genetic
counseling, research grants, college
scholarships and various responses to patients’
needs.
Although there is still no cure for sickle cell
anemia, improved medical procedures, new
research, and increased knowledge have made life
less stressful, less painful and more hopeful
for persons afflicted with the disease. While
SCDAI is proud of its role in raising public
awareness about the debilitating effects of
sickle cell anemia, there still remains an
urgent need to combat the myths and inaccurate
information that still surround the disease.
Thus, SCDAI remains in the vanguard, combating
both the disease and filling the public
information void.
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