After 5 long months recovering from hip replacement surgery, 18-year-old Jadon returned home to Grenada last month. Due to an unfortunate accident during vacation in 2013, Jadon was left with a broken hip. Thankfully, our partners at World Pediatric Project flew Jadon and his father...
7/12/21 Breelyn Steele, a rising junior at the University of Pennsylvania, started her StudentsCare journey two years ago at Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania. Breelyn only spent two shifts in the hospital prior to the pandemic, but even in that short time she saw how being part...
Date: 6/15/21 Due to hospitalization and illness, our pediatric buddies often miss out on many childhood experiences. Birthday parties, clowns, and magic tricks are lost in the many procedures and hardships our buddies have to endure. Varun Krishnan, a magician and recent alumni from the University...
Date: 5/15/21 The pandemic changed life as we know it for everyone around the world, but especially our pediatric patients. With in-person volunteering being suspended to protect our buddies, we racked our brains on how to offer emotional and mental support without being physically present. Beatrice...
04.16. 2021 This April , StudentsCare is happy to bring on one of our Hospital Buddy Program alumni in a new role as a Program Intern. Mukta will be working with our Programs team to support our students, curate training materials, recruit senior and pediatric participants,...
04.14. 2021 April is Volunteer Appreciation Month! And we are celebrating all our of StudentsCare Buddies...
4/12/21 When the word “teenager” comes to mind, memories come flooding with it — getting behind the wheel for the first time, prom, first dates, graduating high school, and so many more. However, many of our adolescent buddies never get to make these memories due to...
3.17.2021 This month is Child Life Month & Social Work Month – a time where we get to shout from the rooftops just how great these two professions are! The child life specialists and social workers at StudentsCare’s partnering children's hospitals across the country help young...
3/4/2021 Monzer Alatrach, a senior at the University of Texas-Austin began his StudentsCare journey in 2018, as a Buddy in our Hospital Buddy program at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas. We asked Monzer to share his favorite memory with his Buddy and he told...
2.19.2021 Mariela Villarreal is a StudentsCare Buddy and Vice President of the StudentsCare chapter at University of Texas. She began her StudentsCare journey in 2018 as a Hospital Buddy at Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin. We asked Mariela to reflect on her StudentsCare experience and...