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Direct Article Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/community-comes-together-to-make-christmas-special-for-chronically-ill-boy/ About the story: This holiday season, we raised over $50,000 worth of gifts and gift cards to 160 Coastal Kids families! Our biggest year to date! Kids like CJ will have an extra special holiday. Four-year-old CJ was born with a rare genetic disorder that affects his kidney function. Yesterday, we were honored to share a little bit about our Winter Wishes Program and thank those who have helped make this happen. Thank you to Monterey Peninsula Foundation host of the ATT proam, Aesthetx , Palma School Gifts on the Go and several private donations! Thank you so much to KPIX and Devin for covering this story. We are so honored to bring much needed medical and mental health services to our patients everyday and this was an extra special thing we are able to bring our families during the holiday season. To read more about CJ in our Winter Storybook, click here.

To see full edition, click here and find us on pages 83 and 110. To learn more about MCGives! 2022 and how to support Coastal Kids Home Care, click here We are very excited and grateful to be selected as one of the nonprofits for the Monterey County Gives! Campaign this season. The campaign runs from November 10 and run through December 31. We hope you will consider making a donation that will support Coastal Kids Home Care Mental Health Services for Kids and Teens🖤 What Kids and Teens Need Today Mission Imagine that your child or grandchild is born with a congenital condition or is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness like cancer. Your whole family's world would be turned upside down. Long bay area hospital stays, countless trips to specialty physicians at Stanford and UCSF and a dizzying array of medications and equipment would become your new norm. Coastal Kids Home Care is here to help through our mission to meet the unique needs of medically fragile children in the comfort of their homes. Our clinical teams surround each patient and family with comprehensive health and mental health services to ease their burden. The Big Idea Expanding mental health counseling to children and teens responds to a critical need in our community. Wrenching data shows that the number of teens experiencing depression in the last decade has increased significantly and suicide rates among teens and younger children continue to rise. The pandemic exacerbated these trends, and our community has been ill-equipped to respond. Early in 2019, Coastal Kids Home Care expanded our traditional counseling to include care for mild to moderate mental health services for children. Intervention that this critical stage, when children are coping with issues like loss, divorce, bullying or anxiety, provides children and their parents with tools and strategies to build resilience for the future. Demand for counseling continues to increase, support from MCGives would allow us to invest in additional counselors with expertise in children and teens – to bring back hope to children in Monterey County. I thought counseling was just like how they showed it on TV where people just have to talk. But it was actually fun! Kate made it fun. We talked, we played, and we worked on arts and crafts. - Naveah Gonzales, 10 About MCGives! Over the past few years our community has experienced a pandemic, wildfires, economic upheaval, numerous business closures, physical confinement and mental unease. While 2022 has been trending in the right direction, the “new normal” is difficult for many individuals, families and institutions throughout our region, particularly for those who entered this period with less means. What may be most remembered and revered after all this passes, however, is how some folks shined in a time of crisis and, even more importantly, how our community—as a whole—came together for the good. Nonprofits are vital to our community and a cornerstone to what defines us, what exemplifies our values and spirit. Perhaps you’ve utilized resources local nonprofits offer to care for your parents, or children, for legal advice, for critical health care services, for local educational, arts or music events, for pet care or adoption services, for recreation opportunities. Chances are high you’ve interfaced with a dozen or more local groups in recent weeks and months. Without the more than 1,000 local nonprofits working tirelessly to fulfill their missions every day, our community would look and feel like a very different place. Their collective missions and programs have a huge impact on our lives. They work tirelessly to fulfill their organization missions. It’s not easy. And each serves its own essential role and needs your support, however that looks. To donate, visit montereycountygives.com/coastalkids

To see story and to support Coastal Kids Home Care, click here To learn more about Wishbook 2022 and find us on the FRONT COVER, click here We are very excited and grateful to be selected as one of the nonprofits for the Mercury News Wishbook this season. The campaign runs from November 22 and run through December 31. We hope you will consider making a donation that will help us establish and sustain a satellite office where clinicians will have access to medical supplies, art and music therapists can store materials, teams can use computers to chart and use printers and scanners to print out doctors orders streamline services in Santa Clara County. 🖤 Mission Imagine that your child or grandchild is born with a congenital condition or is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness like cancer. Your whole family's world would be turned upside down. Long bay area hospital stays, countless trips to specialty physicians at Stanford and UCSF and a dizzying array of medications and equipment would become your new norm. Coastal Kids Home Care is here to help through our mission to meet the unique needs of medically fragile children in the comfort of their homes. Our clinical teams surround each patient and family with comprehensive health and mental health services to ease their burden. Goal Through the Mercury News’ annual Wish Book campaign, which seeks money for the most vulnerable in our communities, Coastal Kids Home Care is hoping to raise $50,000 to provide services and help for families like the Jackowskis who are caring for medically fragile children in Santa Clara County. The goal is to improve the in-home medical care for some 350 children dealing with cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, congenital conditions and other complex medical situations. The agency plans to use the donations to establish a small administrative office in Santa Clara to support the nurses, social workers and therapists in the area. Currently, those workers are operating out of the Coastal Kids Monterey County office. Because [our nurse] Heather was there I was able to focus on being a mom and on my child who was sick. - Collin's Mom About Wishbook In 1983, The Mercury News launched Wish Book, a non-profit project that invites readers to help their neighbors, community and local charities. Each year, Wish Book selects Bay Area groups or people in need to be highlighted and published in print and online stories appearing in The Mercury News from Thanksgiving until the end of the year. Those interested in being considered for a grant can learn more on our Grants page. Those interested in being a helper can donate here. These stories will present the concerns and struggles of those in need. Readers can help grant a “wish” to address these needs. Since its inception, readers have given over $8 million — and 100% of those gifts help right here in the South Bay. Thanks to the generosity of these donors and many thoughtful others, Wish Book 2021 grew to $904,000 and all Wishes were fulfilled! We are humbled and grateful for this kindness. To donate, CLICK HERE

MARCH 23, 2020 ABC 7 Bay Area News coverage of COVID-19 impact in CKHC. See More >>>

Thank you so much to NBC Bay Area and Garvin Thomas for covering the first ever CKHC Wedding. We are so honored to bring much needed medical and mental health services to our patients everyday and this was an extra special thing we were able to bring to one of our families. About the story: Daphne Reyes was born preterm and as a micro-preemie has faced an incredible uphill battle in her little life. She has chronic respiratory failure and depends on a tracheostomy and ventilator to breathe. Since coming home from the hospital, Daphne and her parents have been supported by Coastal Kids Home Care's pediatric palliative care team. Daphne receives regular nursing, physical therapy, massage and music therapy and her parents receive social work support. In fact, a conversation with one of their social workers this past fall, revealed that amid all of Daphne's complications her parents, Joel and Areli, had not had time to plan a wedding. Coastal Kids Home Care Director of Palliative Care offered to officiate at a small ceremony and the wedding planning began. On Saturday, February 19, Joel and Areli were married at the new Rodgers Center for Children's Health in Salinas. Daphne, of course, was the flower girl. Her Physical Therapist worked with her on the days leading up the wedding and practiced how to drop petals as she walked down the aisle. Daphne's Music Therapist played music for the wedding and reception, and Coastal Kids Home Care staff and volunteers stepped in to coordinate all of the details including flowers, decorations, wedding cake, food and more. The team was also thrilled to offer a surprise honeymoon gift for Joel, Areli and Daphne to none other than–Disneyland! We are so honored to be able to provide critical in-home services to children like Daphne, but also create relationships with our families that last a lifetime.