Children with JIA and other paediatric rheumatological conditions can face extra challenges as they grow up. This can create an impact on their siblings and the wider family. These challenges often go on behind closed doors and are seen only by those who know them well.
At CCAA we feel that these challenges deserve recognition! We want to help support you and your family in celebrating the achievements and efforts of your child and their siblings in relation to life with JIA.
At CCAA we:
- See and recognise that it is often the whole family who have to cope with the condition
- Know only too well the hurdles that you face daily
- Want to help support positive behaviour change
- Would like to mark and celebrate the achievements of your child or young person, however small, that are not necessarily noted or valued by others
- Aim to promote a positive life with JIA
How does the process work?
Make Your Nomination
CCAA award badges will be given to children and young people who are nominated for them by those who know them best – their parents / carers / teachers / family / friends/ healthcare professionals etc. You (or the person nominating) decide what the award should be given for, because you know the child or young person best.
Choose Your Badge
We have 7 badges which you can nominate children and young people for! These badges cannot be bought – they are intended to be seen as special and collectible. We want the children and young people who receive them to feel very proud. We want those who nominate them to share with us the reasons why they feel that the child or young person should get an award.
Collect on a lanyard
Once CCAA receive a nomination, we will send the child or young person a badge and a certificate in the post. The first time they receive a badge they will also get a lanyard (choice of colours) on which to collect their badges! Each lanyard has space to collect up to 8 badges.
These awards are not necessarily about achieving huge goals or winning – to read more about the different badges and the sort of things they might be awarded for click here!
New additions to the CCAA Awards Badges
Once your child or young person has collected 8 awards and filled all the spaces on their lanyard, please email us (awards@ccaa.org.uk) and we will be delighted to send them a special medal to hang on the bottom of the full lanyard! They can then receive another lanyard with their next badge to continue collecting!
CCAA Family Awards for Healthcare Professionals
We have launched a new set of badges for families to award to Healthcare Professionals who have made a difference!
To find out more please click here!
We have answered some of the most frequently asked ‘CCAA Award Badge’ questions here so take a look and if you would like information about anything that is not covered here, please contact us via email awards@ccaa.org.uk