Kids Helping Kids

Kids Helping Kids” Raises Funds for Children’s Hospital of Illinois  

In January 2003, the IPA Executive Board approved a fall, schoolwide/statewide charity fundraiser for the Children's Hospital of Illinois located in Peoria. Children's Hospital is the largest pediatric hospital in downstate Illinois and is associated with the Children's Miracle Network.  The purpose of the fundraiser is to have children of IPA member schools raise money for children with serious medical issues. 

IPA’s “Kids Helping Kids” program has raised over $43,886.60 to date and offered the following services to sick children and their families:

• Provided thousands of parents with meal vouchers. 
• Provided hundreds of parents with transportation assistance. 
• Provided hundreds of parents with overnight lodging. 
• Provided thousands of phone calls on the hospital’s toll-free number. 
   

The IPA would like to thank the following for contributing to the Fall 2011 “Kids Helping Kids” program:

• Cissna Park Junior/Senior High, Cissna Park
• Homer Junior High School, Homer Glen
• IPA Abe Lincoln Region
• IPA Blackhawk Region
• IPA Cornbelt Region
• IPA DuPage Region
• IPA Illini Region
• IPA Northwest Region
• IPA Southwestern Region
• IPA Starved Rock Region
  
• IPA Two Rivers Region
• IPA West Cook Region
• Liberty Junior High School, Burbank
• Plainfield SD #202
• South View Middle School, Danville
• Workshop participants who went without desert this past fiscal year

Pictured below, Shauna Skowronski, Children's Miracle Network Coordinator,  thanks 2011 Fall Conference attendees for the IPA's fundraising efforts for the Children's Hospital.  

IPA extends our appreciation to all who contributed to this year’s “Kids Helping Kids” program.  We look forward to partnering with you and others to assist more kids in the fall of 2012.  Visit www.childrenshospitalofil.org to learn more about the Children’s Hospital of Illinois.

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