Euro Euro Euro Euro-Peds Peds Peds Peds ® E E E E-News News News News New Euro-Peds Foundation Needs Your Help The Euro-Peds Scholarship Fund will soon be supported by a new 501(c)(3) Foundation called The Euro-Peds Foundation, as announced by the Director Michelle Haney, PT, MSPT. “We have begun the process of seeking Board members for the new Foundation,” commented Haney. The Euro-Peds Foundation will replace the former North Oakland Foundation’s “Adopt A Euro-Kid” scholarship program. The mission of the new 501(c)(3) will be to help families cover treatment costs to attend Euro-Peds. Michelle’s younger sister Annette who has special needs inspired her to go into pediatric physical ther- apy and now Michelle says she is excited to be able to make more of an impact helping other families with children who have special needs. In 2012, 16 Euro-kids received treatment from the Euro-Peds Scholarship Fund to offset out-of-pocket costs for therapy. 100% of the donations to the Euro-Peds Scholarship Fund are awarded to uninsured or underinsured pa- tients. If you would like to donate to help these children, please contact Pam Montroy, Office Coordinator, at [email protected] or call (248) 857-6776. Spring-Summer 2013 Euro-Kid Emily, New Jersey Euro-Kid Arianna, Virginia Euro-Kid Erica, Ohio Euro-Kid Liam, Illinois Therapy Dogs Bring Smiles, Encouragement to Patients It takes a special dog to work with the children at Euro-Peds. Currently, Molly—a sleek Staffordshire-terrier mix—is being tested by Therapy Dogs Incorporated (TDI) at Doctors’ Hospital of Michigan where the Euro-Peds Center is located. According to Ross Turner, an official TDI trainer (and Euro-Peds volunteer), therapy dogs must follow strict rules during testing and training, have a gentle temperament, and be able to tolerate tugs to their tails and ears. They have to be at least one year old and the owner must have had possession of their dog for at least 90 days. Therapy Dogs are not only used in pediatric settings like Euro-Peds, they can benefit elderly, psychiatric, or post-trauma populations, Turner noted. If you think you might have a special pooch who would make a good therapy dog, email Ross Turner at: [email protected]. Welcome New Euro-Peds Staff Members Emily Naylor, PTA Rachael Yelda, PT Aide Katie Weber, DPT, PT Rachel MacLeod, PT Aide
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New Euro-Peds Foundation Needs Your Help
The Euro-Peds Scholarship Fund will soon be supported by a new 501(c)(3) Foundation called The Euro-Peds Foundation, as
announced by the Director Michelle Haney, PT, MSPT. “We have begun the process of seeking Board members for
the new Foundation,” commented Haney. The Euro-Peds Foundation will replace the former North Oakland Foundation’s
“Adopt A Euro-Kid” scholarship program. The mission of the new 501(c)(3) will be to help families cover treatment costs
to attend Euro-Peds. Michelle’s younger sister Annette who has special needs inspired her to go into pediatric physical ther-
apy and now Michelle says she is excited to be able to make more of an impact helping other families with children who
have special needs. In 2012, 16 Euro-kids received treatment from the Euro-Peds Scholarship Fund to offset out-of-pocket
costs for therapy. 100% of the donations to the Euro-Peds Scholarship Fund are awarded to uninsured or underinsured pa-
tients. If you would like to donate to help these children, please contact Pam Montroy, Office Coordinator, at
RSVP to: [email protected] or call (248) 857-6776, #3 before 9/23/13.
This year we are very excited to bring you Zot Artz-
Arts for All to the Reunion, courtesy of our friends at
The Filippis Foundation. And not to worry...Ronald
McDonald will return with his infamous magic act!
Zot Artz-Arts for All! Is the brain child of Dwayne Szot of
Madison, Wisconsin. Dwayne is an artist and inventor who uses
his gifts to make art accessible to everyone through his ingen-
ious adaptive art tools and infectious enthusiasm. His giant, col-
orful canvases are on the floor as well as the wall so that users
of wheelchairs and walkers can easily and joyfully create their personal art. Euro-Peds is very excited to
bring Zot Artz to their October 6th annual Reunion, which will once again take place at Oakland Yard Ath-
letic dome. Mark your calendars for October 6th, 12:30pm-4pm.
Mark Your Calendars for Annual Reunion with
Special Guests Zot Artz and Ronald McDonald!
Feisty Mom & Her Preemie Growth Project Study
Ida Briggs of Bloomfield Hills, MI, will tell you that, first and foremost, she’s a
mom of two healthy preemie twins. Then she’ll tell you how her babies got that way,
despite being born at 32 weeks weighing 4 pounds. This quickly brings her to her
third passion, the Preemie Growth Project, an ongoing, parent-driven study of mi-
cronutrient deficiencies and colloidal trace mineral supplementation for premature
infants. In the past year, Ida has started a new study looking at children with develop-
mental disorders such as cerebral palsy. Inspired by her twins who “caught up to
their full-term peers at four months actual/two months adjusted” through trace min-
eral supplementation, Ida founded the Preemie Growth Project in 2009 to help fund more studies in in-
fants. Then, on a whim, she offered a bottle of the minerals to a teenaged neighbor girl with cerebral palsy
and asked the girl’s family to observe any changes. After seeing some functional gains, Ida went into over-
drive and donated trace mineral supplements to parents willing to track changes over an extended period.
The informal parent-driven study presently has 118 children who were tracked through June 30, 2013. For
more information, go to www.preemiegrowthproject.com.
Last year IKEA of Canton announced that Euro-Peds had won the Life Improvement Project, a $10,000 prize given annually
to organizations by IKEA based on their employee’s nominations. This year, their staff not only delivered the $5000 worth
of furniture that was part of the winning prize, they helped assemble it and then decorated the clinic! (IKEA donated an-
other $5000 to the Euro-Peds Scholarship Fund which financially assists underinsured or uninsured patients with therapy
costs). THANK YOU to the dedicated and talented staff members of IKEA of Canton who helped make the clinic a home
away from home for our parents and the children who spend many hours a week here during therapy.
Thank you to IKEA volunteers:
Renee Carrigan, Heidi Tippery,
Amanda Preston, Gale Wood,
Courtney Arnold, Piper Kinsvater,
and many others who helped with the
installation!
Generous Souls
Grazi! Merci Beaucoup! Xie Xie! Thank You!....
...to The Filippis Foundation for recognizing the work being done at Euro-Peds for chil-
dren who have gross motor disorders and making us one of your 8 beneficiaries at your
annual golf outing on June 3rd….to Fran Hackiewicz for crocheting wonderful hand
made lap blankets for our patients...to our Baker College interns, Griselda Uvario and
Corey Kleinstiver, for all their help...to Civitan Club of Pontiac for their generous
donation to the Euro-Peds Scholarship Fund...for Books Are Fun for holding a
book fair fundraiser...for Theresa Stothers for donating proceeds from Us-
borne Book sales......to all the families that bring nourishment in the form of
cookies, doughnuts and cakes and the occasional fruit basket….and to our many
supporters, we thank you all!
Inspired Student Creates Prom Dress Fundraiser
Many thanks to Mikala Hackbarth and a group of
volunteer high school students at Waterford Mott High
School for putting on the Prom/Homecoming Dress
Auction for Euro-Peds’ Treatment Scholarship fund on
April 12. Mikala worked with the High School’s leadership program to put to-
gether the fundraiser after she took an inspiring tour of the clinic with her Career
Connections class. Euro-Peds patient Emily Miller of Minneosta was thrilled to be in town to attend the event (shown
here with her entourage, and with Mikala) along with her mom, Kelly and her nurse, Kinzie.
IKEA & Euro-Peds Employees Install Furniture from
The Life Improvement Project
Bill Kunst, Orthotist with Wright & Filippis, presents a $7500 check from The Filippis Foundation to Euro-Peds repre-sentative, Anne Mancour. Also pictured is one of many Euro-Peds Scholarship re-cipient Benoit Pelletier from Ontario..
