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Join us at the
3rd Annual International Conference Take Steps
to Stop SADS Walk
in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
on the evening
of October 26, 2018
following the first day
of Family Sessions!

This year's Take Steps to Stop SADS is included in the conference fee.

However, please take this opportunity to spread awareness about SADS and to raise funds for the SADS Foundation in support of saving young lives!

Reach out to all of your family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues and ask them to contribute to your walk to make your steps count to stop SADS.

You may use our event website at Crowdrise to set up your personal fundraising page for friends and family to donate to the SADS Foundation as one of your supporters or use print materials that you may download from the SADS Foundation or receive in the mail.

This year's Take Steps to Stop SADS Event will feature a tour of the University of Michigan Football Stadium that will replace the annual walk. Michigan Stadium nicknamed "The Big House," is the largest stadium in the United States. The tour includes time to play on the field and throw around some footballs as well as take a group photo.

Following the tour will be an After-Tour Reception at one of the VIP Reception Rooms at the stadium with a panoramic view of the stadium, the field below and the city of Ann Arbor. Be sure to join us for this amazing evening with family, friends, staff, and docs!

To find out more, please contact Director of Development Jan Schiller at 801-272-3023 or jan@sads.org, she will be happy to help.

Photos from the First Annual International Conference Take Steps to Stop SADS

The SADS Foundation would like to extend our most heartfelt appreciation to everyone who helped to make the first Take Steps to Stop SADS event held on Friday Evening, September 30, 2016, at the 9th Annual International SADS Foundation Conference in San Diego, California.

Two school busses of family members and supporters left the Marriott Mission Valley Hotel for Mission Bay Park for an evening stroll accompanied by a beautiful sunset. Afterwards, we returned to the hotel to eat, drink, mingle, and swim (well at least the kids swam) at an After-Event Pool Reception.

The SADS Foundation also would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Dwayne Polee Jr. (former basketball star at San Diego State University and current Long Island Net) and his family for supporting the Take Steps to Stop SADS Event. Dwayne was a special part of our new signature event to kick off the 25th Anniversary of the SADS Foundation and he and his family’s efforts to raise funds and awareness was incredible and made a huge impact on the success of the Take Steps to Stop SADS event!

Additionally, special thanks also goes to our event sponsors Cardiac Insight and Brotherhood Crusade for helping to underwite the cost of the event.

We are proud to announce that the event raised more than $15,000 and showed how easily a walk can be put together even if one is planning it in San Diego from Salt Lake City. Jan would personally like to thank the event committee members Scott Dailard, Rachel Flores, Jennifer Paul, and Lynn Johnson for all of their efforts in making Take Steps to Stop SADS happen at our conference!

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