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Intermountain Healing Hearts

Intermountain Healing Hearts began in 2007 when several families of children with congenital heart defects met at Primary Children's Medical Center and planned a summer BBQ. Recognizing the value of having support from other people going through similar experiences, these families began the process of creating a non-profit organization to benefit those touched by Congenital Heart Defects. 

Venerable Sydney Children's Wellness Center

Personal passion and a start-up charity setting up a children's hospital in Africa. The Well Being of Our Future Matters! It is a non-profit making charity - all monies are going towards this project to help establish this children's' hospital and provide care to the local indigents. Our plan is to Kick off and deliver a '2018 Children's Wellness Event' where we will provide yearly health checks to orphanages and school children in the vicinity of the planned hospital. At the Yearly event we aim to provide the following: Children specialist care for 'cleft lip and palate' General wellness routine check for all attending children All children's details will be stored in a secured 'Medical Record System' design with identification features like bio-metrics and current photos 'Your Health is in Your Hands' training sessions. This includes: o First Aid and CPR training for parents and orphanage care workers o Nutrition talks and materials

Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence (CA)

Next Door Solutions’ (NDS) mission is to end domestic violence in the moment… and for all time by helping survivors rebuild their lives. NDS serves women and children who are financially, ethnically and linguistically diverse: • Crisis Services: 24/7 Emergency Shelter and Hotline – women and children receive safe haven from abuse, and safety planning and other supportive services; callers seeking crisis counseling, vital information and referrals receive an immediate live voice response by a highly trained bilingual English/Spanish Advocate. • Community and Systems Advocacy - clients receive peer counseling, safety plan development, legal advocacy, and assurance and comfort. • Support Groups - Women connect and create a healing environment for each other through 16 groups throughout the county • Self-Sufficiency Program – women empower themselves and enhance their financial independence and self-sufficiency through comprehensive, compassionate, woman-defined case management, workshops in financial literacy, job readiness, and educational advancement, and permanent housing.

Holt International Children's Services

Holt International is dedicated to carrying out God's plan for every child to have a permanent, loving family. Holt believes that, first, children should be in safe and secure families, and secondly, if a child?s own family is not safe and secure, the child should be provided care in a family-like environment while their family is rehabilitated, or if that is not possible, to provide nurturing family-like care until a permanent family placement can be found through either domestic or intercountry adoption.

Children's Healing Art Project (CHAP)

Children's Healing Art Project (CHAP) brings the healing power of art to children and families facing medical challenges. Our mobile team of teaching artists work in local hospitals, clinics and community art spaces. Research demonstrates the importance of art in the healing process: It helps patients and family members cope, encourages compliance with treatment plans, increases self-confidence, encourages self-expression, reduces stress, pain, isolation and anxiety and promotes quality of life.

People's Emergency Center

People’s Emergency Center (PEC) is located in West Philadelphia. PEC’s mission is to nurture families, strengthen neighborhoods and drive change. For families, children, and youth experiencing homelessness, PEC offers more than 235 affordable housing units, job training, parenting and early childhood education, financial education and planning, life skills and technology classes. PEC seeks to change the life trajectory for the families who seek its services and inspire them to achieve housing security and financial stability.

Holy Family Services Adoption & Foster Care

Holy Family Services Adoption & Foster Care has been working in the Southern California area since 1949. Our focus is to provide Resource families for foster youth, work with birth parents considering an adoption plan and approve/train adoptive parents to add to their family through adoption. Our mission is “to promote quality family opportunities for children regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or ethnic origin through counseling, adoption education, and ongoing support services.”

Parker County Center Of Hope

In Christ-like service, equipping and empowering people to live a successful, joy-filled life.Parker County Center of Hope is a Christ-centered ministry that equips and empowers people to live successful, joy-filled lives. We believe that: every person should be valued and respected; long-term solutions that build relationships offering encouragement and stability are essential to discover the root of the problem; effective assistance requires accountability through individual plans of service; and addressing physical, educational, emotional, and spiritual needs leads to success.

Youth Guidance

Youth Guidance sees a bright and successful future for every elementary and high school student.  Because we believe that success in school is not only possible but should be achieved and celebrated, we are present in the schools to facilitate an environment that truly engages students in the learning process, and through careful guidance, enables them to realize their full potential and graduate with a meaningful plan for successfully managing life. Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in life.

Irving Cares

Irving Cares provides focused assistance for Irving residents to address a financial crisis.Irving Cares will:• Provide clients with services in a respectful and dignified manner without regard to race, color, gender, age, disability, religion or national origin• Identify and address the needs of the Irving community• Partner with clients to develop solutions that lead to self-sufficiency• Work with volunteers, agencies, and organizations for greater impact and effectiveness• Assure donors and supporters of superior management and fiduciary practices• Implement a sound fund development plan in support of commitments to the community

Indigenous Health Solutions, Inc.

Indigenous Health Solutions is a trans-disciplinary collective of pioneers driven by a passion for service to the Earth, and the poorest and most remote communities on it. Through the lens of planetary health, where shifts in natural systems are prioritized in examination of human health, experts in conservation, health, anthropology, and business come together with those in need to craft and implement culturally informed and community led solutions for development. Our programs are built upon the foundational principle that development must be indigenous, that is, planned in partnership with those in need and rooted in the place of delivery, reflecting practical awareness of the interconnection between health, conservation, livelihood, and education.

Ronald McDonald House (Long Beach, CA)

After years of careful planning and preparation, the community responded and in less than two years of fund raising through private gifts and grants, $6 million was raised to bring Ronald McDonald House to Long Beach. The Long Beach House joined more than 300 other Ronald McDonald Houses in 58 countries and regions around the world.  Locally, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California operates Houses in Bakersfield, Loma Linda, Los Angeles, Orange, and Pasadena.  The chapter also operates Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, a free, medically-supervised, year-round sleep away camp for children with cancer and their siblings, as well as two Ronald McDonald Family Rooms at CHOC in Orange and CHOC at Mission in Mission Viejo, which serve as an oasis for families inside of hospitals. Additionally, the chapter awards scholarship funds to exceptional high school students and community grants to non-profit organizations that benefit children. Research shows that a family's presence in the hospital helps children heal. Staying close by allows parents to better communicate with their child's medical team and improves adherence to complicated treatment plans. These are only some of the reasons that make Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California an important organization. The Long Beach Ronald McDonald House is a program of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California.