YCPO - December, 2016

Hello Fellow Kiwanians!

Fact: Medical equipment, treatment and facilities designed for adults just don't fit when treating an ill or injured child.
Fact: It costs around four times as much money to treat a child as it does to treat an adult with the same ailment.
(Bulletin Kiwanis International "Children's Miracle Network”)

CHILDREN’S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS AND KIWANIS….A STRONG PARTNERSHIP

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals was founded with the sole purpose to: help as many children as possible by raising funds for children’s hospitals; keep funds in the community in which they were raised to help local children.

The organization was founded by Marie Osmond and her family, and John Schneider, Mick Shannon and Joe Lake.
Kiwanis International was the first association based sponsor of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, joining the charity as a partner in 1982. Key Club and the many other arms of Kiwanis joined later on as they became recognized programs of Kiwanis.

In 1997, Key Club made Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals an official charity of choice for their members to support. Kiwanis-raised funds have enabled the networks' 170 member hospitals to provide medical care, research and education to benefit children. Since 1983 Kiwanis has donated more than $25 million to CMN hospitals. CMN hospitals train 60% of pediatricians and 80% of all pediatric specialists.

There are 6 CMN Hospitals in New England.

•         Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA. serves eastern MA and eastern and southern New Hampshire

•         Baystate Children's Hospital, Springfield, MA.

•         Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME. serving children and families from all over northern New England.

•         Vermont Children Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT.

•         Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT.

•         Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence RI.

How Can Kiwanis Clubs Help?

• 1. If you Club is located near a CMN Hospital, contact an administrator and ASK how your Kiwanis Club can help. Maybe volunteers are needed to help at the information desk etc.

•  2. Fundraising ideas:
organize a "Miracle Mile of Quarters" fundraiser
organize "Duck Races" with your Key Club
sell "Miracle Balloons"
for information on these fundraisers and other ideasgo to: www.KiwanisOne.org/partners or go to: www.KiwanisOne.org/ycpo and read the news bulletin on CHILDREN’S MIRACLE NETWORK
My hope is that I have given Club members "food for thought"; new projects are just a heartbeat away! We can all do our part to make our communities a better place in which to live.

•  Sincerely,
Ava Adams, District Chair 2016-17
Early Childhood Development/Y.C.P.O.
Scarborough, Maine
New England and Bermuda District!
email: faithava2008@yahoo.com