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InTown Friends and Fifth Group Restaurants had an excellent turnout at the 8th Annual A Taste of the Highlands benefiting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. In 2010, we raised over $33,000 for CHOA – with over $183,000 in donations over the course of this event.
A Taste of the Highlands features samplings from favorite neighborhood restaurants and live music. The annual event takes place each May at John Howell Park in Virginia Highlands.
We look forward to seeing you, your friends, and family for an afternoon of good food, good company, beverages and live music…all for a great cause.
InTown Friends is one of 31 Community Friends groups that support Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta through volunteer service, fundraising, and advocacy. 2008-2009 Friends events, including A Taste of the Highlands, will help support six very important parts of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta commitment to children:Neurosciences: The intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) system will provide real-time images to surgeons in the operating room. The primary goal of this leading-edge equipment is to improve patient outcomes by providing surgeons with greater precision in surgery. Friends will also fund a neurology fellow for three years, training the next generation of physicians in this clinical specialty.
The Friends Research Fund: This supports pediatric physicians’ clinical research projects, pilot studies and seed grants. To date, Friends has helped fund more than 30 studies in areas such as critical care, cardiology and cancer.
School Health Program: The school health initiatives at Children’s help encourage children to lead healthy lifestyles, stress the importance of immunization and help victims of child abuse. This program will also provide school nurse consultants and liaisons to Georgia’s schools, help to standardize healthcare provided in school and support reducing the number of lost school days due to chronic diseases.
Aflac Cancer Center Endowment: To help enable the advancements made in curing childhood cancer and blood disorder research, the endowment supports clinical and lab research and program development expenses for strategic growth at the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s, including experimental therapy, blood and marrow transplant, sickle cell disease, neuro-oncology and survivorship.
Patient and Family Support: At Children’s we treat the whole child and support the whole family, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, through programs such as Chaplaincy, Child Life, Social Work, Legal Services, and the Children’s School Program.
Equipment: The equipment in our advanced life-support ambulances is vitally important. The Lifepak 12 defibrillator/monitor and the Propaq vital-signs monitor provide specialized equipment for critically ill and injured patients.
The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit: Delivering giggles and grins to patients and their families, these clowns provide a much-needed distraction that takes patients’ minds off an otherwise anxious time of their lives.
If you would like to join InTown Friends, please send an email to intownfriends@gmail.com and a chairperson will contact you.
For more information on A Taste of the Highlands, please call Ashley Dollar with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at 404.785.7316.
