TEAM JBC

TEAM LOOK IN 2024

We are proud to announce our partnership with Team Look the 2024 Cohasset Tri.

The Look. Foundation (formally Team JBC) is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to offering hope, health and support to families healing from the emotionally and financially devastating impacts of PANS & PANDAS.  Located in Scituate Harbor, the Look. Foundation relies on volunteers and donations to assist these children and their families navigate the often long, lonely and overwhelming journey back to wellness by providing financial grants as well one to one support to parents & caregivers.  In addition, Look. actively educates community leaders, schools and medical providers on this autoimmune condition, giving a voice to these children & their families who often cannot advocate for themselves.

Countless children & young adults with PANS/PANDAS are misdiagnosed with a psychiatric illness or behavioral disorder. PANS/PANDAS are medical conditions brought on by post-infectious autoimmune encephalitis. Triggers can include Strep, Lyme Disease, the Flu, Pneumonia, Mono, COVID as well as other infectious triggers. Symptoms can include anxiety, OCD, sleep disturbances, behavioral regression, school refusal, deterioration in school performance, body and/or vocal tics, oppositional behavior, depression and irritability. This condition occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy brain cells, leading to inflammation of the brain. In essence, it’s a misdirected immune response.  When left untreated, the child is consigned to a life of symptom management & anguish when a cure is possible.  When treated properly, these children & young adults heal. Look. serves families throughout the Commonwealth, greater New England and beyond. PANS/PANDAS affects an estimated 1 in 200 children.

All proceeds raised by Team Look. will go directly to children in need.  For more information about PANS & PANDAS and the Look. Foundation please visit www.lookfoundation.org

Please email Bill Burnett with any questions about how to join and/or support this team.