BEADS OF COURAGE INC
Every bead tells a story of courage, honor, and hope.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Beads of Courage, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of children and teens coping with serious illness, their families, and the clinicians who care for them through arts-in-medicine programs. Since 2005, Beads of Courage, Inc. has established collaborative partnerships in caring with hundreds of hospitals nationally and internationally. The flagship Beads of Courage, now the standard of care in more than 300 children’s hospitals worldwide, is a resilience-based intervention designed to support and strengthen children and teens coping with serious illness and their families.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Beads of Courage
The mission of Beads of Courage is to provide innovative arts-in-medicine programs that improve the quality of life of children coping with cancer and other serious illnesses. Beads of Courage also offers programs that support the families, clinicians and caregivers of seriously ill children.
Where we work
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Our results
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Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth, Caregivers, Families
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Direction of Success
Increasing
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our Goals:
• To transform the bedside experience of caring for children and teens with serious illness through innovative Arts-in-Medicine Programs
• To model collaborative strategies to strengthen human connectedness through the gift of beads that bestow honor and express human caring
• To contribute to the science, practice and implementation of evidence-based interventions
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Since 2005, Beads of Courage, Inc. has established collaborative partnerships in caring with hundreds hospitals nationally and internationally, and worked with several community organizations to make healing happen through the use of beads as a historical art form. To advance the science of caring, Beads of Courage, Inc. is affiliated with the Watson Science Caring Institute and in 2013, we established the Center for Arts in Nursing to boldly pursue our vision. Every Beads of Courage program integrates the use of beads, the earliest art form known to humans, as visible, tangible symbols of human experiences that need and deserve to be expressed. All Program Bead Prescriptions were developed in collaboration with experts in the field (nurses, doctors, child life specialists and social workers) so that each bead guide reflects meaningful acknowledgment of a child’s courage displayed during their treatment experiences. Beads of Courage, Inc. provides all hospitals the necessary program materials accompanied by education, training and support to implement the Beads of Courage Program.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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BEADS OF COURAGE INC
Board of directorsas of 04/24/2023
Michelle Hudman
Deb Gaustad
Aaron Leal
Michelle Hudman
Nadine Dunning
Matt Mars
Patricia Kay-Brown
Cindie Luria-Wolfe
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