“How to Heal”

Dear *{{First Name}}*, 

How are you feeling in the final days of 2021? 

Google recently released their annual "Year in Search," sharing that across the world, people were searching at record-breaking rates "how to heal."

We lost loved ones and searched "how to honor someone."

We felt deep loneliness and searched "how to take care of my mental health."

We searched for answers. We searched for hope.   

"How to be strong" - Wonder Woman showing us her muscles during our

Halloween drive-thru event!

We'd like to offer some of our thoughts.

Want to connect? Reach out to one person today, let one person in your life know what they mean to you. A phone call, handwritten letter, postcard, email, or text - we guarantee you'll make someone's day. 

Want to help your community? Volunteer to help clean up our beaches (and learn more about plastic pollution), assist at a vaccination site, offer 1 hour of your musical skills to visitors of St. Mary Medical Center's lobby. Opportunities abound. 

Want to heal? If you are feeling anxious, scared, depressed, lonely - help is available. There are sliding-fee scale mental health services here, hope & healing grief support here, and a host of other crisis resources here. You *can* heal.    

Take a few minute to move your body every day.

Or, lie flat on the floor, close your eyes, and just breathe. 

Here at the clinic, we don't have to look far to find hope. Each of you gives us hope. 

Tichenor families show us every day their resilience and generosity, doing everything humanly possible to access care for their children while supporting each other in a journey dotted with obstacles. 

Partner organizations like NAMI, NVC Academy, Collins Neighborhood Association, A Future Superhero & Friends, Miller Children's Hospital (Family Resource Center, Stramski Children's Developmental Center, Pediatric Rehabilitation), Harbor Regional Center, California Children's Services Long Beach Medical Therapy Unit and more - Long Beach offers a wide network of care and resources for families.

Donors like you who believe that every child and family should have access to care to support them to thrive. Your gifts make it possible for us to offer low- to no-cost therapy services for families who might otherwise go without. Thank you for your continued support!

Hugs from all of us at Tichenor Clinic for Children

Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful, joyful, and above all healthy holiday season.

Kathryn Miles

Executive Director

"Adelaide's Legacy:

Tichenor Orthopedic Clinic for Children"

Dr. Charles Durnin, Tichenor Clinic past Medical Director, and Karen Robes Meeks, writer, with the soon-to-be-published book on the history of Tichenor Clinic.

Photo by Press-Telegram Contributing Photographer Howard Freshman

BOOK UPDATE: Thank you to those who have expressed interest in our book! The first batch of books will be available the first week of January. We will be reaching out to you as soon as we have them in hand. Thank you for your patience! 

Thank you again to Rich Archbold and the Press-Telegram for the feature story on our book, "Adelaide's Legacy: Tichenor Orthopedic Clinic for Children" (read here in the newspaper and here on our website). Two excerpts from the book, researched and written by Karen Robes Meeks, were published the last two Sundays! You can find them here:

Excerpt #1: Adelaide Tichenor: The Life & Times of a Trailblazer in the paper and on our website

Excerpt #2: Tichenor Clinic: Connection to Long Beach drives decades-long work to help children in the paper and on our website

Look out for the third and final excerpt in the January 2nd, 2022 (online January 3rd) edition of the Press-Telegram!

Books are available for a donation to the clinic. Please contact Kathryn Miles at Kathryn.miles@tichenorclinic.org or Stelet Kim at stelet.kim@tichenorclinic.org to request your copy! 

More Than Words® Program - Free Orientation!

Our next Hanen® More Than Words® Program is starting in January 2022! 

More Than Words® is an evidence-based training class for parents of children who have autism or have difficulties with social communication (i.e., poor eye contact, lack of engagement/play). Parents learn strategies that can be implemented at home to help grow your child's social interactions and desire to communicate. Learn more about the program on the Hanen website here. 

Have questions or want to hear more? Join our free virtual orientation on January 13, 2022 at 5:30pm. Email Speech-Language Pathologist Karen Kleker to register for the orientation at Karen.kleker@tichenorclinic.org. 

The class will be held January 27 - April 7, 2022 and will be on Thursday evenings from 5:30pm-8:00pm via Zoom. 

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