St. Jude's Project Report

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Catholic Charities is excited to announce its newest program in serving your parishioners and the wider community, the St. Jude’s Project. The St. Jude’s Project focuses its work on providing counseling and community supports for the patients and their families diagnosed with a life-limiting illness. These illnesses include Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Huntington’s disease in particular is a complex illness that is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder that is often called “the family disease”. All of these neurodegenerative disorders have a wide variety of physical and emotional consequences for the patient and their family.

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