Generation Rescue is honored to be a beneficiary of the
Orange County Culinary Olympics™
Generation Rescue is an international movement of scientists, physicians and parent-volunteers researching the causes and treatments for autism and mentoring thousands of families in recovering their children from autism.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research.
Research Funding Facts
Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $1.3 billion to diabetes research, including more than $156 million in FY2008. More than 85 percent of JDRF's expenditures directly support research and research-related education. In FY2008, the Foundation funded more than 1,000 centers, grants, and fellowships in 22 countries, including nearly 40 human clinical trials.
General Diabetes Facts
Diabetes is a chronic, debilitating disease affecting every organ system. There are two major types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes (an autoimmune disease also known as juvenile diabetes) and type 2 diabetes (a metabolic disorder also known as adult onset diabetes).
Type 1 (Juvenile) Diabetes Facts
Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes strikes children suddenly, makes them dependent on injected or pumped insulin for life, and carries the constant threat of devastating complications. While diagnosis most often occurs in childhood and adolescence, it can and does strike adults as well.
Since opening our doors in 1964, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) has provided the highest quality medical care to children. Our regional health system includes a state-of-the-art 232 bed main hospital facility in the City of Orange, a hospital-within-a-hospital in Mission Viejo, and five community clinics — plus over 100 additional programs and services. With admissions growing by 91% over the last ten years, CHOC and CHOC at Mission combined rank as the 16th busiest children’s hospital in the country.
Our Mission: To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being
of children.
Our Vision: To achieve national recognition as a premier children's hospital.
SERVING THOSE IN NEED
Our mission is straightforward: To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children. That’s why at CHOC and CHOC at Mission, we are dedicated to working cooperatively — assisting and enriching existing services as well as developing programs to benefit the families of Orange County. In fiscal year 2005, over 200,000 children came through our doors for inpatient, outpatient and emergency room visits — regardless of their family’s ability to pay.
Giving Children Hope is an international humanitarian aid organization serving communities both domestically and abroad by supplying them with needed life-saving medications, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and supplies. Giving Children Hope was established in 1993 and operates out of a 43,000 square foot distribution center in Buena Park where we distribute food to the homeless children in Orange County and medical aid to far off places such as Africa and Southeast Asia. Giving Children Hope is proud to be included among such a worthy list of non-profit organizations in the Culinary Olympics.
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Children with autism ADHD and other neurological disorders and chronic illness are quite often similarly damaged by toxins and infections, and they can greatly improve with healthy foods and the collective efforts of the research organization affiliated with the Culinary Olympics.
In 2003, Stan's son was diagnosed with autism, a crippling condition for Ethan and a devastating blow to his family. After being told that Ethan was "too autistic to learn," Stan, a technology executive and crisis intervention counselor, abandoned his career and devoted himself exclusively to helping his son. Stan was unprepared for the resistance from doctors, and even family and friends. More determined than ever, Stan spent the next 18 months researching autism from morning until night. Stan then designed and applied a customized program for his son, but only after first testing on himself many drugs, treatments, nutritional supplements, and alternate food sources. By accident, Stan recovered himself from his life-long afflictions with ADHD and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which served as the impetus for his later research.
Through his intention to recovery his son Stan discovered that many types of autism and chronic illness are a combination of undiagnosed viral, fungal and/or bacterial infections that interfere with the body's ability to clear toxins. This combination, together with an exposure to environmental toxins (and for some vaccines), can deregulate a person's nutritional, digestive, immunological and neurological systems. Stan discovered that it can be this onset framework, and not genetics, that is a primary cause of the metabolic and cognitive symptoms of autism and many chronic illnesses. In response to this discovery, Stan developed an anti-infectious and anti-toxin strategy to partner with several novel vitamin delivery methods he pioneered, which are helping thousands of families.
Because Stan's discoveries were so significant, and yet greatly resisted by the medical community, he began to document countless dramatic and often immediate recoveries. Many of these videos can be viewed at www.recoveryvideos.com, and in the hundreds of written stories he has collected from families in his Internet research group.
Hoping to help all types of children, in 2004, Stan started a preschool and kindergarten that includes his health philosophies and the result was a dramatic reduction of illness in the children, which continued to demonstrate a connection between autism and chronic illness.
Today, Stan is the President of Generation Rescue, an international organization focused on healing and preventing autism, and he and his son's story are featured in Jenny McCarthy's latest book, Mother Warriors, a nation of parents healing autism against all odds.
CureDuchenne was founded by Paul and Debra Miller whose son was diagnosed with DMD in November 2002. Paul is a vice-president of a food company and Debra was in advertising sales before giving up her career to be a stay-at-home mom. Paul and Debra are confident that their business backgrounds will enable them to effectively communicate the need for awareness and funding for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
“Our confidence also emanates from a strong Christian faith and a belief that God presents us with opportunities to help other people. When we got our son’s diagnosis, the pain was unbelievable. We always had faith, but we never truly knew how much we would have to rely on God. Our hope is that everyone confronted with this devastating news will receive the constant comfort that our faith has brought us. We respect and welcome people of all faiths and beliefs to our organization. Saving these boys and sharing our faith has become our life’s work.”
Picture Me Happy aspires to stimulate the healing process and enhance a sense of overall well being by bringing the creative process of a photography based program to chronically and terminally ill children in hospitals and hospices. Picture Me Happy accomplishes this goal by encouraging children to shoot their own photos and then to use the photos to design their own personal magazines.
Snowball Express started in early 2006 with a simple idea: America should honor and pay tribute to the children of those military fallen heroes who have died while honorably serving since 9/11. In December of 2006, nearly 900 family members from all across America and the world gathered in Southern California for an unforgettable holiday gathering. Kids and widows discovered they weren't alone. And they found they weren't forgotten.
It was a totally volunteer effort which came together in just a few months to create the largest all-expense-paid gathering for the families of our fallen warriors since 9/11.
Orange County. In fiscal year 2005, over 200,000 children came through our doors for inpatient, outpatient and emergency room visits — regardless of their family’s ability to pay.
