Welcome to the CAFA West branch!

CAFA West, situated in Vancouver BC, now forms the Western Branch of CAFA (the Canadian Association of familial ataxias) Claude St. Jean Foundation.

CAFA’s western branch represents CAFA in the western provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC and promotes membership and directs funds to research through CAFA to ultimately discover and support treatments for a variety of types of ataxia.

We work to raise awareness about ataxia, clarify information about the types of ataxias and about CAFA to the western audience, primarily in English. With English-only web pages (housed on the CAFA/ACAF site), we will reach out to those living with ataxia in the west with information, guidance and understanding.

While we do not presently have a support group we are happy to refer people with ataxia in western Canada to local support groups. For details on our CAFA West team, please see ‘About CAFA West’.

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Our Mission:

Our mission is to provide information and resources to people with ataxia where they live and to continue to fund the best possible research. Supporters can now feel confident knowing research dollars will go to projects screened by an esteemed national organization and be eligible for a Canadian tax receipt.