STANDISH FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN

Andy Standish founded Standish Foundation for Children in 2010 with the desire to minimize traumatic healthcare experiences for kids and create environments for those kids to be happy, healthy and resilient. When children experience healthcare in a positive way it contributes to their physical and emotional well-being. This helps build healthy communities with children and families reaching their full potential. We work both locally and globally to serve where there is the greatest need. Our programs consist of education and training for providers, sponsorships, in-kind donations, surgical missions and programs for hospital military programs. We are volunteer led and live and work in 12 countries. In addition to patients and parents, our volunteers work in: nursing, psychology, medicine, child life, music, art and play therapies and academia. We are innovative, collaborative, loyal, transparent and good stewards of the resources entrusted to us.