May You Learn and Share
The month of May is always filled with beautiful flowers blooming and much welcome warmer temperatures, but it is also full of many awareness days and ways to educate yourself on events going on in the medical community. Here [...]
Starry Night 2019
GET YOUR TICKET HERE One of our favorite events of the year is coming up soon on Tuesday, May 7th! Hosted by our incredible Young Professionals Committee, it is a night full of fun in support of [...]
Meet Team EKF’s Kelsey Bryant
Meet Kelsey Bryant This is Kelsey’s first time running with Team enCourage Kids and we are so happy to have her on board! A little bit more about Kelsey: she is a doctor who focuses [...]
Child Life Can: Entertainers
Not everyone can alleviate the fears a child experiences in the hospital. Child Life can. There are not many things that can help distract a child from the pain and fear of a hospital visit, but Child Life Specialists [...]
Child Life Can: Music Therapy
Not everyone can make an IV seem like a fun experience. Child Life can. Child Life and Music Therapists often work in tandem to assess and meet the needs of their pediatric patients. Using music as a way to [...]
Child Life Can: Medical Play
Not everyone can educate a child on the ins and outs of an upcoming surgery. Child Life can. And medical play is one of the ways in which they are able to do this. A Child [...]
March is Child Life Month
Not everyone can prepare a child to be ready to walk through the doors of a hospital. Child Life can. And enCourage Kids wants to provide the resources, tools, and funding to make sure each Child Life Specialist and [...]
I am the 1 in 4
From the moment he was born, his mother knew something was wrong. After 2 years of countless tests and being poked with sharp needles, doctors finally diagnosed him with Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a rare and chronic disease of the esophagus [...]
