Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Advocacy Group and Jack’s Angels Inc., a Santa Clarita nonprofit for awareness and research for DIPG and pediatric brain cancer, is hosting the virtual, “Rally for Our Children” on Friday, Sept. 25 beginning at 8:30 p.m. EST. in conjunction with...

Janet Demeter of Agua Dulce (with a photo of her son Jack), Senator Wilk, Joana Sandoval of Hawthorne (with a photo of her daughter Katelyn Kin). Both women lost their children to DIPG. SACRAMENTO – On Thursday, the California Senate unanimously approved Senate Resolution 106 (SR 106), a measure...

Vasquez High School students in Acton are preparing for their 6th Annual Powderpuff Football Game benefiting Jack’s Angels, a local charity dedicated to awareness and research for DIPG, the deadliest pediatric brain cancer, and advocacy for children with cancer. The Powderpuff Game began in 2013 with...

U.S. Rep. Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, has announced his commemoration of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Awareness Day with a Special Order. His colleagues, Rep. Jackie Speier, CA-14, and Rep. Debbie Dingell, MI-12, also joined Rep. Knight in recognition of the awareness day, and called for action...

Jack’s Angels Foundation’s 2nd Annual running event “Run the Rocks!” is approaching quickly with race-day April 30, 2017, attracting a variety of runners and childhood cancer advocates in support of children with DIPG in an adventurous trail race at Vasquez Rocks County Park in Agua Dulce. Jack’s...

Jack’s Angels Foundation of Agua Dulce is organizing a trail running event, including a family walk—at Vasquez Rocks County Park 10700 Escondido Canyon Road in Agua Ducle, on Sunday, April 30 2017, with races beginning at 9 a.m. The event opens at 8 a.m. and includes both a 5k and 10k race through...

The Santa Colorita 5k Fun-Run on February 25, 2017 at Castaic Lake Recreation Center in Castaic, CA, produced by the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce includes for the third time the “Skip for Jack!” event for young children. A tribute to the long-silent experience that thousands of families...

Jack’s Angels Foundation of Santa Clarita, CA, organizes a run in Washington DC with other activists to celebrate and harken the introduction of the National DIPG Awareness Resolution to Congress on Monday, January 30, 2017. The day also marks opening registration for Jack’s Angels Relay for Research,...

Representative Steve Knight, CA-25, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier, CA-14, reintroduced a bipartisan resolution on Monday that would raise awareness and support research for a form of pediatric cancer called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, or DIPG. Knight’s resolution renews an effort that the Congressman...

For decades, “there’s nothing we can do” has been the standard phrase used with families at diagnosis time for children with DIPG, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. A rare disease, technically, affecting 200-400 children per year in the US, DIPG has seen no progress in its terminal prognosis nor...