New Beads of Courage Programs!

[BOCprogram]

Hello from Beads of Courage Programs!

We are excited to announce a few new hospitals who will be providing Beads of Courage in early 2011! Let us know if you live near a hospital that we are coming to train, we would enjoy trying to arrange to meet your ISGB chapter and get to know you! Colin & Beads of Courage!

Training coming soon to these hospitals!
UNC Hospitals, UNC Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC
Children's in Oklahoma City, OK
Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor ME *first hospital in Maine

Just completed staff ambassador training!
MU Women's and Children's in Columbia, Missouri **first member hospital in Missouri!!
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY
* new in 2011 as well, sister hospital: Women's and Children's Hospital of Buffalo (pending agreements)
Children's Hospital of Orange County, California
Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California
UVA Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

[carolinesbeads]

Is there a list of hospitals that you provide beads for?

Caroline

[CarolS]

Here's a link to the list from the website To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[LoriGreenberg]

Woo Hoo! Welcome to the BOC family Missouri and Maine!

[Jasio]

NH needs to jump on board!

[one-eared pig]

So cool!

[pierces*designs]

Carolina FireFiend's aren't an official chapter yet but I think we'd love to begin the process to get involved with BOC in Chapel Hill!!

[SilverReflections]

Cool, one in Maine. I thought someone mentioned this last time I was at Playing with Fire in Rockland. Would love to help out if I could. Can we make donations that go to a specific hospital too? I need to look through my beads to see what I can come up with.

Tina

[Sue in Maine]

Wuhoo! Eastern Maine Medical Center is MY hospital! They're 20 miles from me and, well, it's one of the 4 closest- they're all about 20 miles away in 4 different directions- Blue Hill, Ellsworth (hi pmsinmaine!), Belfast and Bangor.

I'm glad they're on board. If you ever need anyone in the area for a contact person for them, let me know.

Sue

[Zenith]

I had a question from a mom, I'm teaching her daughter how to make beads, who heard that the hospitals need to purchase the beads from BOC. Is this correct...or is everything donated?
Thanks

[LoriGreenberg]

The regular program beads are purchased. Usually though, the hospitals have a sponsor that carries their refill costs and Beads of Courage funds others that don't currently have sponsors, from money that is raised at fundraisers, grants and donations. There is no profit made on these refills.

The regular program beads are those tiny glass colored beads that represent different treatments they go through. Some kids complete their treatment with up to 1,000 beads. Imagine how many beads that is for over 15,000 kids now!

All Act of Courage beads are donated by you, the artist, and hospitals are given those at NO charge when they need refills of them. Purple hearts and Butterfly beads, the same thing. Anything that is donated to BOC by an artist is then donated to the hospitals as well, including bead bags and wooden boxes that the children get.

(although, we just announced a program where we will start purchasing the purple hearts from artists so you all can focus on the Act of Courage beads for us).

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have further questions and I'll try to answer them!

[Zenith]

Thanks Lori!!!

[sharyl]

I have relatives that have worked at Roswell in Buffalo as well as others that have been patients. Its near my hometown were all my family live. Glad to see WNY will be participating.

[demcc2]

Hi Shari!

Hey c'mon, Massachusetts (and Rhode Island)!! Step up to the plate! Considering the hospitals in Boston its almost embarrassing to see no Mass. hospitals have come on board

Duane
PS
Its good to see UVA Med Center has come on board (my dad was a prof of chem and micro there)

[ThatFritGirl]

Woo-HOO! I just found out that the hospital that I work/live at - Methodist/Children's Hospital in San Antonio Texas is now part of the program! I've been jumping up and down, giving out information, talking until I'm blue in the face, cornering doctors... YIPPEE!!!!\\:D/ somehow someone with more linguistic skills or puppy tears than I got through to someone!!!:fireblob::fireblob::fireblob::happy::ha ppy:

[Debbie Sims]

Leslie! How wonderful for both the kids and you! I wish we had a hospital nearby that participates.
Debbie Sims
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