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You’ll find thousands of resources for children with special needs, plus local resources in these areas: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and Orange county, DC/Baltimore, Seattle, Memphis, Pensacola, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Miami, Palm Beach, Ft. Myers, Naples, Jacksonville and the Tampa/St. Petersburg Bay Area. More cities to come!
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In the News

Assessing The Effects Of Environmental And Genetic Factors On Children's Health
10/15/07 -- The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities has been selected as one of 22 new study centers for the National Children's Study, a nationwide project designed to assess the effects of environmental and genetic factors on children's health in the United States. The study center will manage local participant recruitment and data collection for the largest study of child health ever conducted in the United States. read more

Children And Chronic Kidney Disease
10/15/07 -- For children, even mild untreated high blood pressure can lead to a potentially dangerous enlargement of the heart, according to results of a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in Bronx, New York. read more

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The Brave Kids Story

Brave Kids was founded on June 9, 1999, by Kristen Fitzgerald , after the loss of her two children to catastrophic illnesses. The Brave Kids program has been approved by and is linked to over 110 health organizations such as: The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, The National Brain Tumor Foundation, the National Pediatric AIDS Foundation, United Cerebral Palsy, and the National Children's Cancer Society. read more

The Dalai Lama and Kristen
His Holiness the Dalai Lama honored Brave Kids Founder and President, Kristen Fitzgerald for her compassionate work at a special Unsung Heroes of Compassion presentation.

Kristen received a special acknowledgement for her work with Brave Kids from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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