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Helping parents understand what feelings and moods are normal and what might need a little extra attention.
"It's never about me," said Kyle Landry. "It's about how many kids I can get to go home. How many kids can I get to go to school. How many kids can have lives that are so different than the one my sister would have had."
Heart defects are the most common birth defect in the world. And kids born with heart defects are at greater risk for emotional, behavioral and social struggles later in life. As recently as 10-20 years ago, most of these kids didn’t survive. They never made it into a classroom. But great medical advancements have been made recently and now most of these kids are surviving and thriving. That has posed an interesting new problem, especially for teachers and schools.
Five years ago Kyle Landry started a first-of-its-kind program that helps manage the unique needs of kids born with heart defects as they enter school. The School Intervention Program serves as a communication hub between the family, the school and the hospital. Every child enrolled in the program is assigned a school intervention specialist who collaborates with the school in order to boost academic success, motivation, attendance, attention, behavior and social-emotional functioning. From just 12 kids that first year, now more than 350 kids are helped by this program.
Read the full story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Children’s Wisconsin has awarded State Senator Mary Felzkowsi (R-Tomahawk) and State Representative Robert Wittke (R-Racine) with the tenth annual Children’s Champion Policy Awards.
Mental health walk-in care is now available at the Children’s Wisconsin Kenosha Clinic thanks to a $3 million gift from Kohl’s.
Milwaukee is now home to one of the nation’s first institutes designed specifically to focus on the neurological needs of people from birth to old age.
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While great strides have been made the last few years, our work is not done until we have greatly reduced the number of kids who become hooked after vaping.
