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 14h,
2013 - UCAAN is proud
to announce the 1st 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 1st, 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 27th, 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 1st,
2013
Main
Celebration Event is April 27th 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
