Last year our son had an emergency appendectomy at
Children's Hospital of Michigan. I was lucky to sleep in his room with
him and noticed the number of hospitalized children who were alone. I
was inspired to help and started a charity called "The Cuddlers". It
started with a pilot of DCDS moms who visit CHM several times a month (or
week) to cuddle babies. Leah MacMartin, Chrissy Krempel, Alexis Kiriluk
and Connie Quarrier. The program has taken off and a local news story
had over 1/4 of a million visits online. Nearly 100 volunteers are
finishing orientation to become "certified Cuddlers" by summer 2018. I
also started a program in 2005 called Danialle Karmanos Work It Out
(www.kidsworkitout.org) that has taught SEL and yoga to over 12,000
children in Detroit.
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