Transformational Grants Reports - Livestrong Icon Summit 2021

Features 3 Solution Grant Transformational grant recipients and the progress and impact the grant is making.
Pablove
Providing kids with an outlet and the opportunity to develop a creative voice during their treatment is crucial. That’s why The Pablove Foundation is dedicated to our unique approach of addressing childhood cancer through art + science to realize our mission to:
Improve the lives of children living with cancer through the arts
Invest in underfunded, cutting-edge pediatric cancer research
It’s what we call fighting childhood cancer with love. We believe that the world can be a better place by embracing joy and hope - even in the darkest moments.
Wonders & Worries
Wonders & Worries provides free, professional support for children and teenagers through a parent’s serious illness. Wonders & Worries ensures that children and teenagers can reach their full potential, despite a parent’s serious illness.
Parents often wish to protect their children, and unsure what to say, they say nothing at all. In turn, children are incredibly perceptive and pick up on the clues in the home that something is wrong. Our professional child life staff provide tools for families to build a solid foundation of communication to successfully cope.
Vital Hearts
VitalHearts | The Resiliency Training Initiative is a 501(c)3 charitable organization whose mission is caring for care providers. Secondary trauma or vicarious trauma is a significant, although hidden, problem for those in our society who treat the emotionally traumatized. Our program, the Secondary Trauma Resiliency Training, offers a comprehensive approach to Secondary Trauma and Compassion Fatigue.
The deep exposure to all the suffering afflicting their patients or clients multiplied case after case has the likely effect of traumatizing care providers. Of course, unlike the primary sufferers of trauma, it is not direct. Care providers are not bloodied, nor do they lose loved ones, but instead, they suffer an accretion of exposure to the traumas, many of them violent or life-threatening, suffered by those they treat. That, in turn, diminishes care provider effectiveness, creates compassion fatigue, and shortens their tenure. It is essential to acknowledge the tremendous emotional rewards of this work. That is why it is so worth treating vicarious trauma rather than just accepting the departure of care providers. Shortens their tenure. It is essential to acknowledge the tremendous emotional rewards of this work. That is why it is so worth treating vicarious trauma rather than just accepting the departure of care providers.