Kids-Heal

“Description: program expenses. Amount: 26,462. Description: travel. Amount: 14,506. Description: film research & evaluation. Amount: 8,202. Description: web. Amount: 8,107. Description: fundraising. Amount: 4,057. Description: other expenses. Amount: 2,761. Description: art supplies. Amount: 1,856. Description: telephone. Amount: 1,694. Description: advertising. Amount: 1,369. Description: equipment. Amount: 1,348. Description: office supplies. Amount: 925. Total to form 990-ez, line 16: 71,287.”

“Description: due to executive director. Beg. Of year amount: 29,853. End of year amount: 61,101.”

“The 2018 - 2019 year is kids-heal midway point in our 10-year strategic plan. In some aspects we are ahead of schedule and in others a bit behind. But in general we are on target to be able to hand this project off to others to manage in 5 years. The biggest challenge and creative change arrived as we were forced to move all in-school classes to online programing. The stress levels in schools have made it difficult for kids-heal to offer group activities. Every school is having behavioral problems with their students. Teachers have asked kids-heal to translate our curriculum into programing that can be presented in their classrooms where they have more control over their students. I had felt this shift happening and adjusted how we presented our films. I slowed down the pace of each episode and made them into a more 'mr. Rogers' pace/calm. This change was 180-degree turn from how we started. Initially we ramped up the energy to get kids involved. Now we are calming down, slowing down, all episodes for students because their lives, in school and often at home, feels out of control for them. Having the teachers take over our classes was our long-term goal. But as always we were prepared and adjusted our programing to fit the needs of the teachers. Our shift from in-classroom to online sessions lost some teachers in schools but we picked up new teachers too. We have changed gears, downshifted, into programming that has more depth and includes more new learning tools. This change is in direct response to the requests our partner teachers. Kids-heal shifted our format from bi-monthly to a single class lasting a week. We took the lessons we learned over 4 years in creating films, art projects and pe options to make a more multi-media, multi-disciplinary...and...multi-lingual platform for health education. The shift from our original two-hour class to what would eventually become four 90-minutes sessions required many presentations with a series of new potential learning tools. Website: because my first nonprofit children's healing art project was founded in two different countries and in two different languages our next phase of health education will be produced in spanish and english. The us has the 5th highest rate of cancer in the world and yet not a single student i have asked in 2 years can remember receiving a cancer education class. Our new website will be tailored to meet the needs of dual language education and assessments. Ar cards: we had been looking ar (augmented reality) cards for a couple of years and how we could use them as a new learning tool. Although this technology has been around for 20 years it has only sporadically captured the consumers attention. But i always believed this technology was better suited to teach something rather than to sell something. I choose to return to my experiences with cancer patients to develop a new, meaningful and funny way to teach cancer education. The super heroes i created with children during my children's healing art project years ago could now be used to bring cancer education live. Ar cards would become the heart of cancer education adventure and it would be named after the first two boys who taught me the teaching power of art...the return of bacon boy vs. Sinister sauce will teach in both english and spanish. Online-artist-in-residence: our vincent van gogh online artist-in-residence landscape painting color theory class proved that an artist-in-residence could be translated into an artist-on-line experience. We will expand on this format next year with a painting class that mixes math, color theory and a biology class about blood cells. Online class with posters used in classroomsin english and spanish crosswordpuzzleposters: this vocabulary building project uses the same blueprint/architect size printabout 2 x 3 ft.to engage students about new vocabulary words used in the episode being presented. We will include math, biology and cancer vocabulary, one poster in english”