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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
[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
McLeod,
PT Aide
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EURO-PEDS ANNUAL REUNION, 10/6/13, 12:30pm-4pm,
Oakland Yard Athletics, 5328 Highland Road, Waterford, MI.
RSVP to: [email protected] or call (248) 857-6776, #3 before 9/30/13.
This year we are very excited to bring you Zot Artz-Art
for All to the Reunion, courtesy of our friends at Wright
& Filippis. And not to worry...Ronald McDonald will re-
turn with his infamous magic act!
Zot Artz, Art 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 and traumatic brain injury. Inspired by her
twins who “caught up to their full-term peers at four months actual/two months ad-
justed” through trace mineral supplementation, Ida founded the Preemie Growth Project in 2009 to help
fund more studies in infants. 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 overdrive 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.
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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 children who have gross motor disorders and mak-
ing us one of your eight 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 Usborne 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