Tickets for toys — free holiday market helps families at children’s hospital
The holiday market has been available to families for 16 years now — with every toy donated by local residents.
The holiday market has been available to families for 16 years now — with every toy donated by local residents.
“I think that’s the cool thing about the group that we have too, is that we kind of provide that space for them. They hear others talking about their experience. If they want to talk about it they can, if they don’t they don’t have to. But then typically by the end we’ll see them be a little more open and willing to talk about it,” says Insley.
“It’s really good because it helps the kids be happy when they’re sick here in the hospital, and helps them have something to look forward to so they aren’t just stuck in the room,” says Mykala Williams, whose daughter is a patient at the children’s hospital.
“Whether they are sick or not, they’re still children. So we want to make sure that we’re still celebrating that and we’re taking every opportunity that we can to bring festivities to them,” Fink says,
Halloween night is usually a fun time for kids to dress up and go trick-or-treating. But patients at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital aren’t often able to participate. Instead, the hospital holds what they call “reverse trick-or-treating” where the candy and costumes come right to the kids.