January 2007
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On November 27, the Winship School in Brighton hosted a celebratory event to honor the Allston-Brighton Family Network, a program run by the Family Nurturing Center (FNC), as this year's recipient of the annual Mayor's Award for Child Health. Children's Hospital Boston, along with the City of Boston and Harvard School of Public Health, sponsor this award each year. Mayor Thomas Menino, HSPH Dean Barry Bloom, Boston Public Health Commission Director John Auerbach, and Children's president James Mandell, MD, attended the event to speak and congratulate the FNC staff.
On December 8, Shaw's supermarket donated 250 teddy bears to patients at Children's Hospital Boston and the Martha Eliot Community Health Center in Jamaica Plain. Six other hospitals in the New England area also received teddy bear gifts from Shaw's.
December 20 was a busy day at Children's. It's not a holiday in Boston without the Pops, so Keith Lockhart and the Pops brass section returned to Children's for a concert in the Patient Entertainment Center, to the delight of patients and staff alike. The same day, Children's employees celebrated the holiday season with a free meal in the Café, which included roast beef, giant shrimp, eggnog and cookies. Employees also enjoyed the festive decorations and entertainment.
December's Boston HAPPENS' (Boston HIV Adolescent Provider & Peer Education Network for Services) Holiday Drive was a success. The Salvation Army, Globe Santa and Adolescent Medicine all contributed to the gift-giving event, which was coordinated by HAPPENS Mental Health Clinician Frances Colón. "It means a lot to the HAPPENS staff to notice patients' big smiles and happiness with these gestures of kindness," she says.
On Dec. 19, which has come to be referred to as Waltham gift Tuesday, Joe Salvo and the Kennedy Middle School in Waltham visited Children's to make its annual donation. Representatives delivered a large number of presents donated by the students. Thank you Joe and the Kennedy Middle School!
On February 9, Children's clinicians are invited to attend the first in a series of five workshops called Complementary Interventions to Expand Your Clinical Practice. Although outside clinicians must pay a fee, Children's employees can attend free of charge to learn reiki, guided imagery, meditation, relaxation massage and therapeutic touch. Provided by Children's Medicine Patient Services, this is the fourth series offered at the hospital. For details e-mail Christine Doyle at Christine.Doyle@childrens.harvard.edu.
