HDSA Team Hope Walk Long Island coming to Wantagh Park

The Northeast Chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America will host The Team Hope Walk on Sunday, Sept. 15 at Wantagh Park in Wantagh.

HDSA’s Team Hope Walk Program, which is nationally sponsored by Neurocrine Biosciences and Teva Pharmaceuticals, is the organization’s largest national grassroots fundraising event, taking place in over 100 cities across the U.S. and raising more than $28 million for Huntington’s Disease advocacy and research since its inception in 2007. Each year, thousands of people walk together to support HDSA’s cause.

Huntington’s Disease is a fatal genetic disorder with no cure that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain, causing the deterioration of a person’s physical and mental abilities. Children of a parent with the disease have a 50/50 chance of inheriting the faulty gene. Today, there are about 41,000 symptomatic Americans and more than 200,000 at-risk of inheriting the disease.

HDSA was founded in 1967 by Marjorie Guthrie, the wife of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, who died from HD complications when he was only 55 years old.

Registration starts at 9 a.m. and the event begins at 10 a.m.

Wantagh Park is located at 1 King Road in Wantagh. Online registration and donation information can be found here.

To learn more about Huntington’s disease and the work of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, visit www.hdsa.org.