Organizations Filed Purposes:
Providing innovative arts in medicine programs for children coping with serious illness, their families and the health care providers who care for them.
To provide arts in medicine care program for children coping with serious illness, their families, and health care providers. Our goal is to use art as a means to strengthen resilience based protective processes while decreasing adverse outcomes such as depression, anxiety, uncertainty, withdrawal and symptom distress.
The Beads of Courage Program is our flagship program and is a resilience-based intervention designed to support and strengthen children and teens coping with serious illness and their families. It is the standard of care in more than 300 children's hospitals worldwide. Through the program children tell their story using colorful beads that serve as meaningful symbols honoring their courage displayed along their unique treatment path. Beads of Courage, Inc. maintains the inventory of all program materials for implementation including all training materials, the Beads of Courage Ambassador Workshop for Reflection and Renewal, flagship program beads, handmade beads, storage solutions, print and all program related materials currently providing support to over 75,000 children in 300 children's hospitals with this program. There are specific Beads of Courage program bead guides to support children coping with serious illness such as cancer, blood conditions, cardiac conditions, various chronic conditions, rehabilitation, trauma and burn injury recovery and experiences in pediatric intensive care and neonatal intensive care units.
Complementary Programs provide support to children coping with serious illness, their families and the clinicians who care for them. They allow participants to thrive in a supportive context that includes their family, community, and the professional healthcare providers who care for them. Beads of Courage's Complementary Programs include Beads of Courage: Sibling Program, Bead Strong, Bead Mindful for Clinicians, I'm Fine Workshops for Clinicians, DREAM (Draw, Relax, and Embrace Art and the Mind), and the Beads of Courage Strand for Strength and Remembrance Workshop.
Encouragement Programs connect the kindness of others with the courage of the children, families and clinicians. Encouragement programs engage the community at large to be a source of encouragement for a child or teen that we support. These programs include our innovative Carry a Bead Program; Strength Bracelets; Courage Clips; Bead Making Workshops; Art Card Kits. Additionally, our encouragement programs include the great work we do to solicit donations of beads from bead and polymer artists; boxes and bowls from woodturners; and hosting a large bead making event called "Bead Challenge" which invites members who attend to submit their "Dream Bead" request.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Jean Gribbon | Executive Director | 40 | $74,000 |
| Michael Haywood | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Jessica Boettner | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Jorge Pongo | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Shelby Mcdonald | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Shelby Stratton | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Deb Gaustad | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Chrissy Peterson | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Kate Snapp | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Aaron Leal | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Ruth Seppala | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
| Kaitlin Elledge | Chair / President | 5 | $0 |
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