by dance | Apr 28, 2015 | news
The Joe Jackson Foundation will be holding its third annual charity golf classic fundraiser at the Ocotillo Golf Resort on Friday, September 30, 2015. Come out and play individually or as a team. Immediately following the tournament, specialty and place awards will be given as well as a: luncheon, raffle drawing and silent auction. Popular silent auction item available to bid on include: vacation packages to Antigua or St. Lucia, Disneyland tickets, and tickets to the 2015 Cactus Bowl and pre-game party.
We have several sponsorships to choose from such as: Platinum ($3000), Gold ($2000), Silver ($1000) or Bronze ($600). These sponsorships benefits include: free day of play and golf balls for a select number of golfers, a printed golf hole tee box sign, ability to add promotional inserts into golfers’ goody bags and recognition on the Joe Jackson Foundation website. You may also want to sponsor a hole, for any company; person or occasion, which includes a printed golf hole tee box sign.
Please come out to support Joe’s mission to improve the quality of life of children, with spinal cord injuries, and their families while also having fun playing golf. Registration is $80 per golfer. We hope to see you there.
When: Friday, September 30, 2015
11:30am – Registration
1:00pm – Shotgun Tournament
Where: Ocotillo Golf Resort
3751 South Clubhouse Drive
Chandler, Arizona 85248
(map)
[Download brochure]
by dance | Sep 6, 2010 | news
News Release- For Immediate Release
On Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 9:30 am. The Joe Jackson Foundation will award Jarrett Dreyer a rugby sport wheelchair made by Vesco Metal Craft (VMC) during a Phoenix Heat rugby practice held at Broadway Recreation Center, which is operated by Mesa Association of Sports for the Disable in Mesa, Arizona. Dryer of New York, attends the University of Arizona and plays on the University of Arizona Wheelchair Rugby Team was injured during a snow sledding accident.
The mission of the Joe Jackson Foundation Individual Grant Program is to support children (21 and younger) and their families in providing adaptive equipment post-injury. The Joe Jackson Foundation’s Individual Grants provide funding for adaptive equipment, some sports and recreational equipment necessary to allow those living with paralysis to continue on living their dreams and accomplishing their goals.
About the Joe Jackson Foundation
The Joe Jackson Foundation was established on October 26, 2006 to help spinal cord injury survivors and inspire children to continue to strive for their goals. Inspired by Joe’s own story, the foundation created by his calling to primarily help inspire individuals disabled by SCI to continue living actively because there’s much to overcome despite the challenges they face and to fund future opportunities for Joe’s quest to walk again.
Joe Jackson, a former Hamilton High School football player was injured during football practice in November 2005
by dance | Oct 10, 2009 | news
News Release- For Immediate Release
On Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 1:00 pm, The Joe Jackson Foundation will award Andrew Donnellan a rugby sport wheelchair during Arizona Outcast Desert Dual III Wheelchair rugby tournament held at Broadway Recreation Center, which is operated by Mesa Association of Sports for the Disable in Mesa, Arizona. Donnellan of Tucson, Arizona was injured during a gymnastics tumbling accident.
The mission of the Joe Jackson Foundation Individual Grant Program is to support children and their families in providing adaptive equipment post-injury. The Joe Jackson Foundation’s Individual Grants provide funding for adaptive equipment, some sports and recreational equipment necessary to allow those living with paralysis to continue on living their dreams and accomplishing their goals.
About the Joe Jackson Foundation
The Joe Jackson Foundation was established on October 26, 2006 to help spinal cord injury survivors and inspire children to continue to strive for their goals. Inspired by Joe’s own story, the foundation created by his calling to primarily help inspire individuals disabled by SCI to continue living actively because there’s much to overcome despite the challenges they face and to fund future opportunities for Joe’s quest to walk again.
Joe Jackson, a former Hamilton High School football player was injured during football practice in November 2005.
by dance | Nov 2, 2006 | news
“He reminds me of how blessed I am to be an educator,” Hogan said of the Hamilton High School football player who suffered a serious spinal-cord injury in November that left him paralyzed from the waist down. He’s currently in rehabilitation at Barrow Neurological Institute in central Phoenix.
“He has taught me that true courage is putting a smile on your face and laughing at yourself and your daily follies as you conquer life’s most powerful blows. He has taught me that faith is all we really have when life gets tough.”
Hogan, an English teacher at Hamilton, is part of a team of five from the school that has been taking lessons to Jackson while he recuperates at Barrow.
For two hours a day, five days a week, Jackson gets instruction in English, marketing (from Susan Flynn), chemistry (Debbie Crane), math (Eric Miller) and history (Les Renner).
This way, he won’t lose ground academically and will be positioned to graduate with his class in 2007. Jackson hopes to be cleared by doctors and physical therapists to return to the Hamilton campus for the fourth quarter this school year. If not, he vows to be back in the fall.
“I want to go back to school and be around everybody,” Jackson said.
Calling it “a learning process for both of us,” Hogan said this is her first experience with homebound instruction.
The Chandler Unified School District makes it available to any student who has either an acute problem or needs to be out for at least three months. Medical certification is required.
Hogan initially became acquainted with Jackson when he was in her zero-hour English class as a sophomore. His boundless enthusiasm won her over.
“There are students who leave footprints on my heart, and Joe was that student,” she said. “Every morning, he made me smile. Zero hour comes early (6:40 a.m.), but Joe was always full of energy. He is well liked by so many. It’s tremendous that our students drive down (to Barrow) and spend hours with their friend, having movie nights and playing video games.”
Todd and JoAnn Jackson, Joe’s parents, have placed few restrictions on visitors.
“We just let everybody come,” said Todd, an engineer at Intel who only recently returned to work. “We felt it would be right for Joseph. He is a social butterfly, anyway.”
Hogan said the family’s strength comes from its deep faith. “The Jacksons have taught me what true love for a son really means,” she said.
Reprinted with permission:
Doug Carroll
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 11, 2006 12:00 AM
by dance | Sep 2, 2006 | news
Paralysis doesn’t keep injured football player from being in middle of action.
Mark Armijo
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 2, 2006 12:00 AM
When Hamilton High School wide receiver Joe Jackson suffered a broken neck during practice last season, paralyzing him from the waist down, some thought he would never return to the sidelines.
They were wrong. As Hamilton beat Red Mountain last week at Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Stadium, Jackson cheered wildly on the sideline.
Nothing could stop him from experiencing the joy of victory. Not even paralysis.
Jackson, a reserve junior wide receiver last season at the Chandler school, was injured trying to make a tackle during a practice for a state playoff game in November.
In the blink of an eye, Jackson’s life changed forever. Barring a cure, his life now must be negotiated from a wheelchair.
But instead of cursing the world for his injury, the 16-year-old has chosen a different path, one that has him tackling each day’s new challenge as if he were still on the football field scrapping with defensive backs.
“Even after what happened, I’ve never been down,” Jackson said during lunch after participating in a Huskies pep rally. “There’s no reason to be. I was always positive before.
There’s no reason to change. Being negative is not going to get you anywhere in life.” Being positive is what put Jackson back on the sideline. It will keep him there for every game this season.
It’s what persuaded Hamilton coach Steve Belles to make certain Jackson was part of the pre-game coin toss against Red Mountain, a ceremony reserved mostly for captains.
And it’s why Hamilton players are wearing helmets this season with the No. 30 on them, Jackson’s old number. “We’re doing that to show that we haven’t forgotten Joe,” said Hamilton wide receiver Chase Barth, who takes turns driving Jackson to school.
“He still comes to our practices when it isn’t too hot, and so we’re going to keep including him in everything. When we took our team photo, he was there with us.
“We’re just glad to have him back. We want to keep him as our teammate.”
Belles was not at Hamilton last season. He took the job in the spring when John Wrenn opted to become an assistant coach at ASU. But it didn’t take Jackson long to grow on Belles. “I have a ton of respect for people in Joe’s position, but for him especially just because he’s so young and is handling it so well. I talked to our captains about Joe being part of the coin toss, and they thought it was a great idea.”
Jackson said he’s deeply humbled. “When I came back to school (last March), I didn’t know how people would react,” said Jackson, who can move his arms and wrists but is unable to move his fingers.
“I wish I could be out there playing. I love football. . . . Just because what happened to me doesn’t mean I don’t like it anymore. I won’t play again, but I know I can still watch my team.
“There’s no reason to be sad. . . . This happened for a reason and so I don’t ever say, ‘Why me?’ I don’t get bummed out.”
Todd Jackson, Joe’s father, isn’t surprised with his youngest son’s attitude.
“He’s always been a positive person,” the elder Jackson said of Joe, who has a 3.85 grade-point average and plans to major in engineering at ASU or the University of Southern California.
“He’s got a big heart.” A big heart in a small body. At 5 feet 5 and 125 pounds last season, larger defensive backs often overmatched the younger Jackson but he played often during Hamilton blowouts.
The Jackson family, which includes Joe’s mother, JoAnn, now want to help other paralysis victims.
They have started paperwork to create the Joe Jackson Foundation, which Todd said would help provide financial assistance for anyone in the country who is unable to purchase equipment to aid their rehabilitation.
Jackson finished his three weeks ago. “Joe is our hero, and this is something we just feel we need to do,” Todd said.
by dance | Aug 21, 2006 | news
STILL A PART OF THE TEAM: Despite being paralyzed after breaking his neck in football practice last November, Joe Jackson will still be at every Hamilton game. Above: Andy Workman guides Jackson off the field.
Hamilton’s Joe Jackson stays positive, cheers on teammates
Mark Armijo
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 31, 2006 12:00 AM
When Hamilton High School wide receiver Joe Jackson suffered a broken neck during practice last season, paralyzing him from the waist down, some thought he’d never return to the sidelines. They were wrong.
As Hamilton beat Red Mountain on Friday at Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Stadium, a 21-7 season-opening victory that revealed a state championship again may be within its grasp, Jackson cheered wildly on the sideline. Nothing could stop him from experiencing the joy of victory. Not even paralysis. Jackson, a reserve junior wide receiver last season, suffered a broken neck during practice for a state playoff game last November.
In the blink of an eye, Jackson’s life changed forever. Barring a cure, his life now must be negotiated from a wheelchair. But instead of cursing the world for his injury, Jackson has chosen a different path, one that has him tackling each day’s new challenge as if he were still on the football field scrapping with defensive backs.
“Even after what happened, I’ve never been down,” Jackson said during lunch Friday after participating in a Huskies pep rally before the team’s season opener. “There’s no reason to be. I was always positive before. There’s no reason to change. Being negative is not going to get you anywhere in life.”
Being positive is what put Jackson back on the sideline Friday. It will keep him there for every game this season. It’s what persuaded Hamilton coach Steve Belles to make certain Jackson was part of the pregame coin toss against Red Mountain, a ceremony reserved mostly for team captains.
And it’s why Hamilton players are wearing helmets this season with the No. 30 on it, Jackson’s old number. “We’re doing that to show that we haven’t forgotten Joe,” said Hamilton wide receiver Chase Barth, who along with friends Louis Prisco and Michael Martinez take turns driving Jackson to school.
Belles wasn’t at Hamilton last season. A former Mountain Ridge coach, he took the job last spring when John Wrenn opted to become an assistant coach at Arizona State University. But it didn’t take Jackson long to grow on Belles.
“I have a ton of respect for people in Joe’s position, but for him especially just because he’s so young and is handling it so well. I talked to our captains about Joe being part of the coin toss, and they thought it was a great idea.” Jackson said he’s deeply humbled.
“When I came back to school (last March), I didn’t know how people would react,” said Jackson, who can move his arms and wrists, but is unable to move his fingers.
“But everybody was so nice and wanting to help me. . . . I wish I could be out there playing. I love football. . . . There’s no reason to be sad. . . . This happened for a reason and so I don’t ever say, ‘Why me?’ I don’t get bummed out.”
Todd Jackson, Joe’s father, isn’t surprised with his youngest son’s (older son Todd Jr. is a senior at the University of Arizona) attitude.
“He’s always been a positive person,” the elder Jackson said of Joe, who has a 3.85 grade-point average and plans to major in engineering at ASU or the University of Southern California. “He’s got a big heart.”
A big heart in a small body. At 5 feet 5 and 125 pounds last season, larger defensive backs often overmatched the younger Jackson. But he played often during Hamilton blowouts last season and finished the season with one reception.
The Jackson family, which includes Joe’s mother, JoAnn, now want to help other paralysis victims. They have started paperwork to create the Joe Jackson Foundation, which Todd said would help provide financial assistance for anyone in the country who is unable to purchase equipment to aid their rehabilitation. Jackson finished his three weeks ago.
“Joe is our hero, and this is something we just feel we need to do,” Todd said.
