Central Jersey Spinal Cord Association

Try Your Luck: 50/50 Raffle

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The Central Jersey Spinal Cord Association’s Super 50-50 Raffle helps the organization raise funds to support research and provide much-needed equipment for individuals with disabilities. To purchase tickets or for more information please call Kevin J. Hoagland at 732-220-0870. Please leave your name phone number if no one is available. Thank you for your support

35th Annual Vito Recine Dinner

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The Central Jersey Spinal Cord Association (CJSCA) will be hosting its 35th annual Vito Recine Spinal Cord Research Dinner and Auction. This signature event helps us raise funds for spinal cord injury research, advocacy and direct assistance to individuals with spinal cord injury. Please join us in making a difference at this year’s event. Tickets are available for the dinner, in addition, individuals or corporations may purchase ads in our ad Journal, or can donate items for our silent auction.

CJSCA has raised over a $1,200,000 for spinal cord research at the Spinal Cord Injury Project at Rutgers University. We have provided close to $600,000 in direct financial assistance to people with spinal cord injuries, for things such as home and vehicle modifications and adaptive equipment. In addition, we have sponsored numerous workshops to provide individuals with disabilities the tools they need to be good self-advocates.

The success of our organization is due to support from individuals and corporations that attend the dinner and other events. Please join us as we continue to assist individuals with disabilities and fund research to cure paralysis.

Event Information

Date: November 1, 2019

The Pines Manor

2085 NJ-27

Edison, NJ 08817

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Cocktail Hour/Silent Auction

Tickets: $70 Per Person or $700 Per Table

For more information contact Kevin Hoagland: 732-220-0870

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The Annual Don Buckelew Golf Classic

Admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 09:42:09 +0000

Join the Central Jersey Spinal Cord Association and JohnHoagland a Trustee, at the golf outing at the Bunker Hill Golf Course. This signature fundraiser will continue to make the lives of people with disabilities better by providing research funds to cure spinal cord injury. In addition, it will allow the Central Jersey Spinal Cord Association, to help consumers directly through the provision of technical assistance, medical aids, and other needs.

Help us make this year’s event a huge success and join us on September 7, 2019. The event kicks off promptly at 8 AM. For more information please contact Kevin J. Hoagland at 732-220-0870

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CENTRAL JERSEY SPINAL CORD ASSOCIATION CREATES HOPE

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When no one believed there ever would be a cure for spinal cord injuries, the Central Jersey Spinal Cord Association (CJSCA), not only believed that effective treatments were possible, but committed themselves to do everything they could to bring about that cure. Since 1987 they have dedicated their energies to raising funds for research. Today they are seeing their efforts come into fruition.

When world-renown researcher Dr. Wise Young was recruited to Rutgers to establish a world-class neuroscience center, he was surprised and pleased to discover that CJSCA, one of the leading spinal cord research funding organizations, was right in his backyard. There was an immediate bond between these two top-ranked groups who shared the same vision, a relationship that quickly developed into a partnership of respect and deep friendship.

The fundraising efforts of CJSCA has provided the foundation for much of the cutting-edge research at the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience including the work undergirding the clinical trials planned for New Jersey and New York. These trials are based on the first trials for people with chronic complete spinal cord injuries which recently were completed in China. In those trials 75% (15 out of 20) of the participants recovered the ability to walk with minimal assistance and the majority also recovered critical bowel and bladder function.

Other projects that have received support from CJSCA include potential treatments for severe neuropathic pain, studies into gender differences in response to both injury and treatments, potential therapies for higher and lower level spinal cord injuries, and developing methods to expand by ten-fold the number of people who can be treated from a single unit of umbilical cord blood while reducing the cost from $1,000 to $100 per treatment.

Central Jersey Spinal Cord Association is unique among organizations funding spinal cord injury research because of its longevity and its loyal and steadfast volunteers, many of whom have worked with the organization since its founding. Some of the original families now have workers from the second and third generations.

The highlight of the year is the Annual Banquet which features a research update by Dr. Wise Young and an inspirational address by founder and Executive Director Kevin Hoagland, two men who share an unwavering commitment to bring effective treatments to people with spinal cord injuries and their hurting families. Originally launched in times of deepest despair, the existence of Central Jersey Spinal Cord Association became and remains a creator of Hope to the entire community.

For more information on the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience Laboratory visit http://keck.rutgers.edu or email SCIProject@rutgers.edu

Special thanks to Patricia Morton and Jim Bennett for this article.

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