“For over 25 years the consistent mission of the Fragile Kids Foundation is to enhance the quality of life and wellbeing of children with support, supplies and prescribed medical equipment not covered by Georgia Medicaid or private insurance for Georgia’s medically fragile children living with chronic illnesses, genetic and traumatic disorders and orthopedic and neuro-muscular challenges.
Our Goals: Fragile Kids strives to create safer, healthier lives for Georgia children living with a wide range of diagnoses, including: Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Spina Bifida, Mitochondrial Disorder, Retts Syndrome, Angelmans and other genetic/traumatic injuries.
Assistance offered to families includes: wheelchair lifts, stair-lifts, and overhead lifting systems to safely transport children in wheelchairs, ramping for homes and vans, specialized car seats, toileting and bathing systems, gait trainers, standers, pediatric strollers and more through grant and loaded equipment initiative.
Eligibility: Georgia children, age birth to 21, with a medically fragile diagnosis (Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, Muscular Dystrophy, genetic disorders, traumatic injury, genetic challenges, etc.”
Examples of assistance: Transport equipment, ramps, car seats, toileting, bathing systems, strollers/wheelchairs, positioning chairs, standers, gait trainers, therapeutic tricycles and bikes,ball-terrain wheelchairs, and the “UpSee”: a new therapy device. Click here for the details: Fragile Kids Foundation (pdf document)
Fragile Kids Foundation (website)