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Stripes® Stores raised $197,000 through its in-store charitable fundraising campaign for Driscoll Children’s Hospital to benefit the children and youth of South Texas.
Due to COVID-19, the Driscoll Children’s Hospital campaign, which usually takes place in April, took place in November 2020. The funds benefited Driscoll Children’s Hospital specialty clinics in Corpus Christi, Victoria, the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and Del Rio.
Driscoll’s Child Life Specialists help decrease stress and anxiety felt by children and families during their hospital experience, which starts with creating a place just for them. The Stripes Child Life playroom and teen lounge offer a place for children, teens and families to enjoy a sense of normalcy. The 12 specialists and four assistants provide procedural support and often use play as a coping strategy to assist patients.
OBITUARY: Natalie Small, 87, a counselor deeply involved in children s issues
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Natalie Settimelli Small (87), of Gainesville, FL, Newton, MA, and North Truro, MA died peacefully in Boston on Feb 10, 2021, surrounded by her family. Natalie, the daughter of Joseph and Edmea Settimelli, was born in Quincy, MA in 1933. She graduated from Thayer Academy and Tufts University where she was the first woman editor of the Tufts yearbook. She spent the subsequent year on a scholarship studying in Florence, Italy. She fell in love with Parker Small, Jr. at Tufts and they were married upon her return to the United States in 1956. The couple moved to Cincinnati where Parker completed medical school and she taught first grade. Their career journey took them to Philadelphia, London, Washington D.C., and Switzerland, with a growing family.
St. Jude has a Place Just for Teens that Allows a bit of Normalcy
As we continue to help St. Jude in their efforts to treat childhood cancer, I wanted to share something else about St. Jude that I think is really, really cool. That really cool thing is their “Teen Scene”. A place just for teenagers who are being treated at St. Jude.
The Teen Program at St. Jude is for kids who are 13 and older who have been diagnosed. Within this program, they have what are called Child Life Specialists. The job of the Child Life Specialist is to help teenagers feel less stressed as they go through treatment. One way of doing this is by helping kids understand everything that is going on around them in the hospital. This doesn’t just mean giving them the how and why but the specialists also help prepare patients for upcoming procedures and test that they might need.
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