Programs
Current Programs
Noah's Hope Baskets at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago (bottom right), and Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois (top left).
Noah's Hope Baskets
Our first project, started on February 17th, 2025, when we visited Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago for the first time since Noah received his wings there on September 12th, 2024. We went for the autopsy report meeting and made a basket for staff. This continued with a basket for Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn, and will continue with providing pediatric cardiac patients, their families, and care providers with baskets containing comforting and practical items, including: blankets, books, games, gift cards, snacks, and soft tissues.
The "Good" Tissues
In the hardest times, families need the softest care, including tissues. Sometimes standard-issue hospital tissues don't offer the most comfort. They're scratchy, thin, and do the job, but we want everyone experiencing the Heart Warrior journey along the trail of tears (sometimes in joy, sometimes in sorrow) offered this small comfort.
We collect, purchase, and deliver the "good" tissues to hospital pediatric cardiac care units for anyone needing a little extra love.
Future planned programs that will become possible with your generosity...
Emergency Housing Support
Grateful for Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), where we lived almost exclusively during Noah's journey. Besides keeping you as close as possible to your child, they do an over-the-top job of making you feel at home (please, always "Round-Up" for them).
After hospital arrival, a brief gap may exist before transitioning into long-term housing like RMHC. Parents often stay in the hospital room, but they also need to care for themselves so they can best care for their child. To help in these situations, we plan on offering short-term emergency housing support for families.
Lifting-Up Heartcare Heroes
Proving recognition and scholarships for our pediatric cardiac Healthcare Heart Heroes. They choose dedication of their lives to supporting our Heart Warriors and their families, including chaplains, doctors, nurses, music therapists, occupational therapists, perfusionists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, social workers, and other specialists providing exceptional care.
In the many twists, turns, ups, and downs of the Heart Warrior journey, there are so, so, many heroic people, and we want to lift them up while making the world aware of who they are and what they do.