FOR THE KIDS

For the Kids (FTK) is a Middlebury College student service organization which works to raise money for our local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in Burlington, VT. We host a number of events each year, our biggest of which is a Dance Marathon hosted annually in March. FTK is always looking for new members. We are welcoming all those interested! Our goal is to continually expand our organization and provide as much support to the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital as we can. Feel free to drop by and see what we do!

For the Kids (FTK) is a Middlebury College student service organization which works to raise money for our local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in Burlington, VT. We host a number of events each year, our biggest of which is a Dance Marathon hosted annually in March. FTK is always looking for new members. We are welcoming all those interested! Our goal is to continually expand our organization and provide as much support to the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital as we can. Feel free to drop by and see what we do!

For the Kids (FTK) is a Middlebury College student service organization which works to raise money for our local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in Burlington, VT. We host a number of events each year, our biggest of which is a Dance Marathon hosted annually in March. FTK is always looking for new members. We are welcoming all those interested! Our goal is to continually expand our organization and provide as much support to the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital as we can. Feel free to drop by and see what we do!

Come join us to see Middlebury’s talented performing groups put on a show for the kids! All proceeds will benefit the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital

This presentation will be both didactic and experiential. We will address the particular challenges of being a college student in 2016 while also introducing proven mind-body techniques that help to reduce stress and enhance overall wellbeing. Our focus will be a research-based model that uses peer support, meditative practices and a powerful group dynamic to foster change.

This presentation will cover the history of ADHD, current criteria for diagnosis, known and fictitious causes, associated and co-existing medical, educational and mental health disorders and conditions that look like ADHD but are not. In the course of discussion we will chat about Executive Skills as a way of conceptualizing this common condition. We will consider the indications for initiating an ADHD evaluation, what it should involve, and who should do it. We will discuss the Multi-Model Treatment Plan when criteria are met.

Smile Train is an international children’s charity with a sustainable approach to a single, solvable problem: cleft lip and palate. Millions of children in developing countries with untreated clefts live in isolation, but more importantly, have difficulty eating, breathing and speaking. Cleft repair surgery is simple, and the transformation is immediate. Our sustainable model provides training, funding and resources to empower local doctors in 85+ developing countries to provide 100%-free cleft repair surgery and comprehensive cleft care in their own communities.

An academy award winning film created by Smile Train. Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never realized that this condition required just one simple operation until she met Pankaj, a social worker traveling from village to village gathering patients to go to hospital in Varanasi that provides free surgery to thousands each year. This real-world fairy tale follows its protagonist journey to a dream smile from isolation and shame.