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Reduce Stress to Reduce your Risk of Injury or Illness

We will try to bring you personal wellness tips to help reduce your stress and risk of injury or illness. This month we focus on the holidays: Shopping, wrapping, baking, planning, spending, hosting, cleaning, Elf-on-the Shelf-ing, decorating, donating……giving. With all of this outgoing energy, we need to manage the “fuel”. What we can miss is that no one enjoys it if it is at the sacrifice of mom’s (or dad’s) joy. All year we give of ourselves and we get to the end of the year and it seems we have one final epic push that leaves us feeling exhausted and unappreciated.

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Dr. Jon Gayken

Every drop of kindness has a ripple effect.
You never know how far reaching each ripple might be.

In his years as a surgeon, Dr. Gayken has had to make difficult split second decisions that save limbs and lives of the patients in his care. He is very talented but that’s only part of his magical powers. He has the kindest heart as well. Dr. Gayken is a humble family man who experienced skin grafting himself as a patient nearly 20 years ago. He knows the pain all too well. He knows the emotional toll. We are so thankful for his partnership.

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Volunteer Spotlight

Jazmine is an outstanding volunteer. She loves FFFH because we are a small board with a big heart for the children and families we serve.

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Partner Spotlight

People come in and out of our lives but some will forever change how we think, feel, respond, act and care. Alison is one of those people!

For the last few years, Alison has been the liaison between the Hennepin County Medical Center Burn Unit and Firefighters for Healing (FFFH). She had the opportunity to be on the inside, working directly with patients and was able to identify patient needs and communicate those needs to FFFH. FFFH is growing every year as a foundation and is able to help more and more patients. Working with FFFH has made working on the Burn Unit much more rewarding. Whether it is finding kids who are candidates for burn camp, making the holidays a little brighter by surprising patients with a holiday gift or treat...FFFH helps assure patients that they are not alone.

Thank you Alison for your partnership! We wish you luck on your next adventure!!

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Sponsor Spotlight

Alerus Mortgage has a long history of helping people achieve their home ownership dreams. Our mortgage team has become a lender of nearly nationwide presence, meeting the needs of home buyers, real estate professionals and builders. We admire the work of firefighters and are pleased to contribute $15,000 to the Minneapolis firefighters - which benefits Firefighters for Healing, local firefighters, and the firefighter-led Coats for Kids initiative. We consider it a great privilege to support organizations such as these who so selflessly support others.

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Happy Father's Day

What better way to celebrate Father's Day than to celebrate one of our own. On April 24, in Wilson, North Carolina, the Barton College softball team wore special red jerseys and raised money for the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust. John Scott is on the board of Firefighters for Healing and a volunteer assistant coach for the Barton College softball team. This charity is particularly meaningful for volunteer assistant coach John D. Scott, a Barton graduate who was a close friend of Crowther and who sits on the Trust’s Board. We are proud to call John our friend.

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Sponsor Spotlight

The CraftWorks Foundation assists their restaurants when fundraising and hosting community activities with local nonprofit partners. The CraftWorks Foundation continues to grow and seeks to make a difference in the lives of our local communities.

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First Quarter Update

Firefighters for Healing has welcomed new friends, new sponsors, more patient contacts & more event attendees learning about our mission and passion. Each board member is connected to a group or a medical community and strives to model a Pay it Forward philosophy.

Sponsor Spotlight

Meuser Law Office, P.A. has been a proud supporter of Firefighters for Healing since its inception in 2010. When former firefighter and founder of Firefighters for Healing, Jake LaFerriere, was severely burned in a backdraft explosion, Ron Meuser and his team were hired to represent Jake and knew instantly that he was a special person.

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