In spring 2024 we are raising money with our partner organization First Aid of the Soul to provide Comfort Kits to families who will attend a grief and trauma camp in Ukraine. With your help between 100 and 150 children and parents will be provided Comfort Kits to learn how to use mind-body practices to manage anxiety, pain, and other challenges associated with trauma. The camp will provide comprehensive programs for parents and families, with an emphasis on supporting  emotional expression and regulation, building resilience and connection in community, fostering positive interactions between parent and child, and training Ukrainian counselors for sustainability and scalability.  Please donate today!

In the wake of the devastating wildfires, we are partnering with psychologists in Hawaii to send Comfort Kits to children of first responders on Maui. Please donate now to support healing in Maui!

Recently Dr. Lynn Gershan, member of the NPHTI Board of Directors, visited Ukraine and distributed Comfort Kits at the Lviv General School of Oriental Languages and Martial Arts "Budokan." We are so grateful to Dr. Gershan in bringing these kits to children in need! Dr. Gershan is pictured here with the school psychologist.

Comfort Kits for Children was recently mentioned in the end-of-year newsletter from the Children First Fund, the foundation of Chicago Public Schools. We are proud to support SEL (Social Emotional Learning) skills for students in our local community through Comfort Kits.

Thanks to our generous donors, we are assembling around 200 Comfort Kits that will be distributed to children in Turkey affected by the recent earthquakes. These kits will be accompanied by the new Turkish translation of our Feel Better Skills, to guide children and their caregivers in effective ways to use Comfort Kits.

In response to the devastating earthquakes that recently hit Turkey and Syria, we have begun adding new resources in Arabic and Turkish to help families struggling with the aftermath of these disasters. Our “Feel Better Skills” have been translated into Turkish and are available as a downloadable PDF. Our website can be viewed in Arabic by using the language menu on the top of every page.

We are saddened to recognize the one-year anniversary of the brutal and unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. For the past year we have been working to raise funds to purchase materials for Comfort Kits, as well as assemble those kits, and work with generous individuals and organizations to get the kits to Poland and Ukraine and distributed to the children who need them.

To date we have sent over 1,000 kits to children affected by the war in Ukraine. We will continue to work to support these children with skills to help them cope with the trauma of war and displacement. Please consider making a donation today to help us continue our work.

Comfort Kits has reached a huge milestone: we have raised over $15,000 in donations! Words cannot express how grateful we are to our generous donors. All donations are used to purchase totes and items for comfort kits and to send them to children coping with trauma. By continuing to support this initiative, you can join us in being a part of a healing intervention.