Glass Artists of Colorado
Denver, CO

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Beads of Courage 

What is the Beads of Courage Program?

The Program is a resilience-based intervention designed to support and strengthen children and families coping with serious illness. Through the program children tell their story using colorful beads as meaningful symbols of courage that commemorate milestones they have achieved along their unique treatment path.

How Does it Work?

Upon enrollment each child is given the Beads of Courage bead color guide with a detachable membership card. Their Beads of Courage journey begins when each child is first given a length of string and beads that spell out their first name. Then, colorful beads, each representing a different treatment milestone are given to the child by their professional health care provider to add to their Beads of Courage collection throughout their treatment as determined by the Beads of Courage Bead Guide (available from Beads of Courage, Inc.)

ARTMA  

I want to deeply thank everyone who participated in ARTMA this year. It was an incredible show and I think we made about $15,000 for pediatric cancer research.

Lots of people told me this was their favorite part of all of ARTMA. So many of our “kids” came and we were overjoyed to see them. The look on their faces when they saw their drawings come to life was one of pure joy. Thank you so much.

We DO make a difference. And, we have been invited to do it again. This is now kind of Morgan Adams Foundation’s “Thing”. We are grateful.

If you have any photos from the event, Morgan Adams Foundation would love to have them. They can be emailed to: meg@morganadamsfoundation.org

They also made a film with us in it and I will give you the tube listing when they give it to me.

See you, I hope, at at least on of these meetings. PS.. Please feel free to bring treats to the meeting on Sunday. See you soon.

Deborah Carlson