Help HD Reach Bloom!

We walk beside you with services and programs that ease the burden of HD, providing support, education, connection, information and access to care throughout North Carolina.

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Watch the flowers bloom as we get closer to our match! 

The Canning Family (Tom, Tim, John, Joe, Mary, Ann) legacy revolves around HD. Three generations - but in 2025 they know that HD has not been passed down to the next generation. Amid their challenges living with HD, the Canning Family now offers you an opportunity to tell your own family story, to plant seeds of hope for HD families, and to help HD Reach bloom this spring.

Our spring campaign – Hope for Generations – is supported by a $10,000 match from the Canning Family. Our total goal is to reach $20,000.

Your contribution to the Hope for Generations campaign will support HD Reach programs and services:

  • Resources - weekday coverage of calls for support and resource referral from HD patients and caregivers (over 700 calls a year)
  • Answers - anonymous genetic testing, therapy support before, during and after genetic testing; (since its inception, we have provided testing to over 50 individuals)
  • Connection - monthly in-person support throughout the State (6 locations!)
  • Information - a bi-monthly newsletter full of activities, events, resources and news for the HD community (circulated to over 1200 people each issue)
  • Education - professional training for facility staff, community first responders and physician staff seeking to more deeply serve their families; (virtual and 1:1)
  • and our commitment to deliver HOPE during scary, uncertain times (for 15 years!)

Please help us reach our goal of $20,000! This campaign ends on June 6, 2025. 

Thank you for considering a gift to HD Reach. Our community is a better place to live because of people just like you.

HD Reach Staff

Kelly Sharpe

byKristen Jobe (2nd of her 4 daughters)

My Mom, Kelly Sharpe, was diagnosed with HD at 49 years old. She battled mental illness long before her diagnosis of HD. My Mom was 63 years old when she passed from HD. On May 14, 2024, at 6:03a.m., she took her final breath. She was a prayer warrior that loved Jesus and all Gods people. She struggled many years with the disease, but never developed chorea as most victims of HD usually do. Her symptoms remained to be more of the psych than anything else. It was difficult to grow up with a Mom that changed personalities quickly and had unpredictable mood swings. But in her final year battling HD, she seemed to change for the better. She became more gentle and sweeter and easier to handle. She became more like the Mom I once knew as a child before mental illness and HD set in. I am thankful to God for allowing me to witness her story and fight with HD, so I could be better prepared for how to help support my sister, who tested positive last year, moving forward. HD is an awful disease, but God is in the business of bringing good from even the most difficult situations. I believe my Mom is apart of a much greater story unfolding. I might have tested negative for HD, but I tested positive to being a sinner the moment I was born. This means I am not incapable of falling victim to the many negative effects caused by sin. Moving forward, the best way I can acknowledge my Mom as an HD hero is by acknowledging her unwavering faith and her commitment to prayer. Her fervent prayers were heard more than her temper tantrums. Through her prayers, God saved my Dad and gave him a new life in Christ. Her suffering was not in vain. No ones suffering is in vain. God uses suffering to save. He did this with his Son Jesus 2000 years ago on the cross and he does this still with all his people that believe and follow him today. She has fought the good fight of the faith and is now in paradise with her Lord and Savior. What looks like it was the end…was really only the beginning. I can’t wait to see how God uses her story and ours to help others going through this complex disease and many more of life’s challenges. 
Never give up HOPE.
Which is a Heart Obediently Pursuing Eternity.
With Love,
- Kristen Jobe (2nd of her 4 daughters)