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"Throughout human history, healers of
every culture have recognized an essential factor in getting well
that we have largely overlooked in our modern high tech approaches.
The missing element is the compassion and caring that takes place
between a healer and the patient."
- Larry Dossey, M.D. in
the foreward to the book Voices of Integrative Medicine by Bonnie
Horrigan
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 Achievements
- Total Raggedy visits to date: 750,000!
- Participation in the student volunteer program,
Compassion in Action, doubled in the last three years.
- Sales of our best-selling educational video,
Communicating with Compassion, reached 4,000.
- The third edition of our book What Can
I Say? was published. 22,000 copies are now in print.
- Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics recognized Karen and
Simon Fox with their Health Care Heroes Award for 2002.
In Fiscal Year 2003-2004
- 69,500 one-on-one Raggedy visits with patients,
family members, and staff.
- 33 health care facilities visited weekly: 4 hospitals,
26 nursing homes, 2 residential homes, and 1 clinic. As
follows: Santa Barbara County, 14; Ventura County, 8; San
Luis Obispo County, 3; other counties in California, 1;
Outside California: 7 (in PA, IA, UT, AZ).
- 202 active volunteers served as board members, committee members, advisors, seamstresses, program support staff, and Raggedy Ann & Andy visitors.
- 169 people volunteered as Raggedy Ann or Andy (up from 159 last year). 109 of these were students.
- 72% of all Raggedy volunteers are in Santa Barbara County.
- 88% of volunteers in Santa Barbara County are students.
- 7% of all Raggedy volunteers are in Ventura County.
- The Raggedy Therapy programs at Cottage Health System and Reading Hospital & Medical Center remain the two largest programs with more than 28 volunteers regularly visiting Cottage and 12 at Reading.
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