Krissy's Kuddles is a collaborative network of parents, professionals, and community resources poised to embrace the needs of families enduring a pediatric medical crisis. Our purpose is to join with families on their journey through this life changing event by providing encouragement and hope, decreasing feelings of isolation, reducing anxiety and stress, and connecting families to their identified resources. Recognizing families as unique systems, our goals will be adapted and expanded according to each families specific needs, subsequently enhancing their child's health. More specifically, our goals are to provide social and emotional support, identify and increase available resources for each family, provide educational information, connect families with their spiritual and/or cultural identities, as well as assisting families in hurdling the barriers that obstruct them from achieving their goals.
Sensory stimulation such as the sound from a heart monitor can trigger memories of the event months or even years following the initial pediatric medical crisis.
