Stink Bug program connects kids needing comfort with furry friends
The Rocky Mountain Children’s Health Foundation’s Stink Bug Project provides comfort to children facing serious medical or behavioral diagnoses by connecting them with therapy animals.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article said Jessica Mittelstaedt has battled pancreatic cancer. Rather, Mittelstaedt was pre-cancerous and had surgery to prevent pancreatic cancer. When a child receives a serious medical or behavioral diagnosis, a family’s world can turn upside down in an instant, and anxiety, fear and stress can easily take over. […]
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