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MUSC Family Fund awards campaign grants The following departments have received grants from the MUSC Family Fund through the YES Campaign. For information on the MUSC Family Fund, call Kristin Romness, employee campaign coordinator, at 792-1973.   To donate to the YES Campaign, visit http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/2006yespledgeform.html. The form can also be found on page 14. To win prizes during the YES Campaign, return your completed pledge form to the Health Sciences Foundation. This year’s grand prize drawing will take place in July. The grand prize is a one-year executive membership at Costco, a $150 value, and a $25 Costo gift card. The CARES Clinic—$2,500: The CARES (Community Aid, Relief, Education, and Support) Clinic in Mount Pleasant is a student-run free medical clinic designed by a group of MUSC students to meet their educational needs, as well as the health care needs of uninsured patients in the greater Charleston metropolitan area. Trident Area Safe Kids—$2,500:  Trident Area Safe Kids focuses on providing child safety seats and child passenger safety education to low-income families in the community. The Family Fund money will provide car seats to approximately 50 families. School-Based Clinics—$2,500: This program serves to improve access to primary health care at schools in medically underserved communities and provide learning experiences for more than 100 MUSC nursing and other health professions students annually. Funding will provide medical and office supplies for patient visits at these schools. Expanded Pharmacy Indigent Discharge Program—$2,500: This program provides medications to indigent patients beyond the standard indigent discharge program with which Ambulatory Care pharmacies can dispense a three-day supply of medicine to discharge a patient. The program supplements the three-day supply by addressing the more long-term medical needs of the discharge indigent patient, as well as the needs of the ambulatory indigent patient that requires medication. Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Project—$2,500:  This project will include a coordinated, hospital-based, parent education program targeting parents of all newborn infants in order to make them aware of the dangers of violent infant shaking. This type of program has been used in other hospitals, and studies have shown that shaken baby syndrome education can reduce inflicted head injuries in infants. Resource Materials for Bereavement—$650: The MUSC Bereavement Committee will be creating a library, called the Children’s Hospital Compassionate Care Family Resource Library, made up of books, videos, DVDs and other media, for families and children suffering from the loss of a child family member. Car Beds for Infants—$2,500: Approximately 30 car beds will be purchased for families with infants who are unable to safely travel upright in a car seat. Car beds allow infants to travel comfortably in a supine position. Sickle Cell Sisters—$2,500: Sickle Cell Sisters is a support group for adolescent females living with sickle cell disease. Therapeutic activities are offered during bi-monthly meetings, such as arts and crafts, speakers from the community and end of the year outing. Therapy Equipment and Toy Closet—$1,697.73: The occupational therapy educational program will establish a loaner closet of equipment and toys that will be used to provide constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. The occupational therapy students will use the equipment to evaluate, plan and implement CIMT therapy. Reading/Educational Materials, Medically Fragile Children’s Program—$2,443.95: The Medically Fragile Children’s Program (MFCP) serves to foster children with chronic and complex medical needs, and their families, in an all-inclusive setting. The goal is to provide appropriate materials for home use that will encourage children and their parents to read at home. The MFCP will assemble discovery packs containing thematic collections of books that teach basic skills, poems, songs, hands-on educational activities and games. A listening center filled with books on CD and headphones will be provided in the classroom for parents, teachers and therapists to use with the children. Friday, June 2, 2006 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island papers at 849-1778, ext. 201.