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1. What is Brave Kids?
2. Who founded Brave Kids?
3. When was Brave Kids incorporated?
4. Why is Brave Kids needed and whom does it serve?
5. How is Brave Kids funded ?
6. What makes Brave Kids unique?
7. What is the geographic area that Brave Kids serves?
8. How can I help?
9. How can I link to the Brave Kids web site?
10. How can I add our organization's logo to the sponsors page?
11. How can I make comments or suggestion on Brave Kids?
1. Q. What is Brave Kids?
A. Brave Kids is the non-profit organization that helps children with chronic, life threatening illnesses and disabilities. Approximately 2.5 million children were admitted to hospitals nationally last year. Brave Kids offers 3 programs:
  1. Bravekids.org
    • The online community and web resource center for kids with special needs, their families and healthcare professionals.
  2. Brave Kids Resource Centers
    • The Bravekids.org Resource Center, complete with computers, printers and resource materials enables parents to locate immediate medical information and resources for their ill child while they are in the hospital. Volunteers assist parents with locating information quickly and provide emotional support to parents.
  3. Outreach and Advocacy
    • Provide targeted outreach and education to the families and caregivers of poor, uninsured underserved, and minority children with special needs. Outreach activities will provide critical support, address the importance of care, to inform as to the availablity of resources and advocate for children with special needs.
2. Q. Who founded Brave Kids?
A. Kristen Fitzgerald, Executive Director of Brave Kids, founded the organization on June 9, 1999. Kristen has extensive experience in marketing and has served various nonprofit organizations. She brings first hand experience and a personal commitment to this endeavor having lost her own two children to catastrophic illness.
3. Q. When was Brave Kids incorporated?
A. Brave Kids was represented by the Tides Center from November 1999 through June 2001. Brave Kids was incorporated and received its own 501(c)3 in June 2001.
4. Q. Why is Brave Kids needed and whom does it serve?
A. Over 2.5 million seriously ill children were admitted to hospitals nationally last year. Brave Kids serves seriously ill children of all ages, families, parents, siblings, social workers and anyone else working closely with children with special needs.
5. Q. How is Brave Kids funded?
A. Brave Kids is funded through the generosity of individuals, corporations and foundations.
6. Q. What makes Brave Kids unique?
A. Brave Kids is unique in that it is the only organization utilizing the Internet as the sole medium to provide the most comprehensive program of services for children with chronic, life threatening illnesses and disabilities along with their families and health care workers.
7. Q. What is the geographic area that Brave Kids serves?
A. Brave Kids has local and national programs that serve children with special needs.
 •  Bravekids.org serves children with special needs and their families nationally by providing medical information on pediatric illnesses for caretakers, medical information on a child's level and emotional support through message boards.
 •  The Resource Directory portion of Bravekids.org provides local support and healthcare resources for children with special needs. The following local communities have made the resource directory available in their regions through donations: San Francisco, Northern California, Orange County, Pensacola, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Tampa Bay Area, Orlando, Ft. Myers, Sarasota, Naples, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Washington DC/Baltimore, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Buffalo and Syracuse. If you are interested in learning how you can have a Directory of Resources built for your community, please contact kristen@bravekids.org.
 •  The Brave Kids Resource Center is a local program that provides a Resource Center to a pediatric ward of a hospital or a temporary family housing center. This enables parents to locate medical information and support immediately while their child is in the hospital. If you are interested in learning how you can provide a Brave Kids Resource Center to your community, please contact kristen@bravekids.org.
 •  Educational Outreach is a local program that provides educational trainings in the communities we serve
8. Q. How can I help?
A. You can help Brave Kids serve more children with special needs by offering donations in the form of cash. You may even donate company stocks. We also rely on technical and non-technical volunteers to keep the programs running, so contact us if you are interested in volunteering some of your time to Brave Kids.
9. Q. How can I link to the Brave Kids web site?
A. Complete instructions can be found on the linking to Brave Kids page.
10. Q. How can I add our organization's logo to the sponsors page?
A. Qualifying sponsors of Brave Kids can add their logo to our sponsors page. Simply email your logo to kristen@bravekids.org.
11. Q. How can I make comments or suggestions on Brave Kids?
A. We greatly appreciate all feedback. To make comments or suggestions to Brave Kids on our programs email us at info@bravekids.org.