Bowtie Kids

Our aim is to create a network and sense of community through education and support programming designed to increase the social and emotional learning capacity of children and families impacted by chronic pain through interactive and experiential learning.

We will:

-Create a network of support for children ages 2-18.
-Promote a positive identity for participants as they engage with children and peers.
-Enable children to find value in sharing and expressing themselves.
-Increase participants’ coping skills and strategies to socially engage with others
-Increase participants’ communication and self-expression skills and strategies to emotionally connect with others

We seek to achieve our goals through the pursuit our empowerment principles:
•Self-Discovery
•Self-Awareness
•Self-Worth
•Creative Expression
•Social Engagement & Advocacy

Our strategies are to:

-Establish a strong network of support with the school systems, hospitals, medical centers and other entities providing complimentary services to the same population.
-Launch a series of fundraising activities that will successfully fund the provision of services and expansion of the program.
-Collaborate with other non-profits, organizations, individuals to administer our programs and services.
-Establish an effective training program for facilitators, volunteers, and mentors that will increase their ability to be successful administrators and communicators

Karen Prescod, visionary and founder of Bowtie Kids has been navigating the journey of chronic pain since February 2009. Her personal experience is the premise for our programming model. We will also utilize the strong network and community presence of our board of directors, to leverage their talents and influence to meet our goals.

We have completely build 3 programs : K.E.E.S Kids Experiencing Empowered Support. Camp K.E.E.S and Bowtie Garden. We then executed K.E.E.S 1.2020. Now we are working on recovering from the impact of covid and move our K.E.E.S to virtual and working on connecting with partner organizations.

We have had 3 awareness events called 'Tie The Knots" and 3 online bowtie contest to bring awareness to our organization and kids that live with chronic pain.

We had to cancel our first Courage and Confidence Award event from May 2020 to may 2021. We are executing our first Web-A-Ton for September 25th 2020 a 12 hour event for pain awareness month.