UCAAN Announces Unique Fun-Raising Event, Fun for All Ages

For Immediate Release - Charity Event

UCAAN Announces Unique Fun-Raising Event, Fun for All Ages

Five Local Dance Schools Are Set to Offer Free Dance Lessons to Community in Support of UCAAN

Thousand Oaks, CA February 14^h, 2013 - UCAAN is proud to announce the 1^st Annual Dance 4 Life event in support of programs for cancer survivors.  Participants would pay a small registration fee of $25 and commit to a minimum $100 that they would need to raise for the charity before the actual date of the event. Participants can choose to get involved as an individual, a couple or a team and have the option to set their own goals for what they’d like to raise for the cause. 

Dance 4 Life is an all ages event for people at all dance levels. It’s for individuals, private groups, business and corporate teams. The best perk of the event is the free dance lessons that participants can take. 6 dance schools in Ventura and Los Angeles County will be giving classes to the Dance 4 Life participants prior to the main event.

Classes start March 1^st, and continue till a week prior to the event. Participants are encouraged to sign up Now and choose the classes they’d like to take and start their own personal fundraising campaign for the cause. Participants can choose as many free dance lessons as they want from any or all of the 6 dance schools offering their expertise to our cause.

Dance school sponsors include: Connexions Dance in Ventura, Degas Dance in Encino, Agoura Hills Dance, Thrive Dance in Newbury Park & Carpino School of Dance in Thousand Oaks. Dance styles that will be offered include Jazz, Tap, Modern, Hip Hop, Salsa, Foxtrot, and East Coast Swing to name a few.

The main event, Saturday April 27^th, 2013, will be a celebration of the participants and recognition of the top fundraisers, plus there will be plenty of dancing & inspiration. Participants will be able to show off their moves from 1-5pm at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church – One Church Road – Thousand Oaks, 91362.

Get Involved Today via email, phone, or schedule a date for Team UCAAN to come and speak to your school, business or team about this event

Free Dance Classes Start March 1^st, 2013                                                                                                                                          Main Celebration Event is April 27^th at St. Patrick’s Episcopal

Call UCAAN: 805-796-6090 or 805-479-1032

UCAAN is a 501c3 organization in Thousand Oaks; that was started by two-time terminal leukemia survivor Rachel Shur. From Shur’s own personal battle with cancer, she struggled to find the financial assistance and support that she needed. She found that resources were limited and that financial assistance to help the patient survivors after treatment was completed was even more difficult to find.

Shur started UCAAN in 2009 in hopes of providing cancer survivors with the levels of support that they needed. Since its inception, UCAAN has made many strides, helping provide resources & gifts of hope. UCAAN programs have attracted strong continuing interest and support from the surrounding community “It’s exciting to see the quality of support and the number of people who come in to our office out of concern for the needs of local cancer survivors.” Says Shur. “This gas assistance program is the first of what we hope to be many financial programs for cancer survivors.”  

The following programs are available to cancer survivors at UCAAN: “Young at Heart” peer lead support group that incorporates web chat to include survivors across the country, gifts of hope, group guided Imagery hypnotherapy, guidance, one-on-one counseling & support.

As funding comes in to UCAAN more assistance programs will be announced; including a specific dental assistance program that will fund fluoride trays for cancer survivors. Fluoride trays help prevent the side effects caused by chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Other needs that could be filled are grocery cards for organic food and funds for lymphedema garments.  

Interested in getting to know more about UCAAN? Visit: www.ucaan.org for more information or email Rachel@ucaan.org