Bring Back The Juvenile Huntington's Disease Award In Honor Of Kelly Miller

I have lost many family to this horrible disease and I'm a standing strong free for hunningtons

Shame on them, this is a family disease!

I can't believe they would take away this award! It means so much to so many!

Much more focus is needed on JHD. Please bring back the JHD award.

Bring back JHD award. Maybe there should also be an accounting of the account balance of what has been distributed to each recipient and year.

Try harder to award the JHD award.

All three of my children were diagnosed with JHD. All three were advocates for HD research and fundraised until their frail bodies were no longer to sit in a wheelchair. Margie and Marie are gone now. I wish we could have honored them somehow for the 14 years of fighting for a treatment. It is not too late for those JHD individuals who are still with us and fighting the good fight. They need to be recognized and honored for their acts of love, hope, and good fight.

HDSA is committed to maintaining the JHD award in honor of Kelly Miller. In fact, it never went away. It has suffered from a lack of nominations in recent years. We are working to ensure that the call for nominations is better promoted in 2017 and the nomination process is easier. I hope that everyone who responded to this petition nominates at least one person next year. Thank you!

AN EXCELLENT CAUSE.

Our JHD kids are an important part of the HD world. People who are working hard to help them deserve to be nominated and awarded just like any others. Please give this award the importance it deserves and make it easy to nominate people.

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HDSA: please award 3 JHD awards every year or more. These kids are sick and may never get another chance to attend an HDSA national convention. Let the honoree know months in advance that they've been chosen so they can make arrangements to attend. Move the national convention closer to California, the most populated state, every other year since it's too far and too expensive to travel to the east coast. Change how you ask for nominees for these meaningful awards.

I would like to nominate Jean Miller who has done an incredible amount to educate the JHD community and to help people with JHD.

I am Kelly Miller's Aunt

Bring back the award. They deserve it.

Please bring this back. It was very important to Karli and her family

Yes please bring back the JHD awards I think the children and their families would appreciate if you gave out the award.

I lost my son to JHD. Please bring back the JHD award.

I have 3 children with JHD

We support each other. That means ALL of us. JHD included. Family is everything and everybody!

Please bring back this Award and recognition! It means so much to the kids & their precious families/friends. It's the least that HDSA can do for the children. Thank you in advance.