Andee's Army

Shepherd center keeping adolescents and young adults connected (kayac)- payments of 241,500 in 2023. The kayac program targets the critical time after injury, the first 1-2 years to provide adolescent mentorship training and peer support resources to enhance and promote patient mental health. The program connects former patients with existing patients, collaborates and leverages expertise and volunteer resources, enables conference participation and other patient engagement.

Project rollway is a project at shepherd center that showcases the hard theray work adolescent patients. Patients are able to demonstrate the mobility skills they have acquired over months of therapy for facility staff, partners, and family.

Shepherd center annual fund and endowment fund- payments of 100,000 to each fund in 2023. The annual fund is the patient assistance fund at shepherd center, the nation's largest not-for-profit brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation hospital. The fund supports adolescents and their families with medical treatment, rehabilitation and home care needs not typically covered by insurance or other compensation sources. The endowment fund is a permanent fund established to provide ongoing resources to the shepherd center's primary mission as noted. Andee's Army is not related to the shepherd center and it (andee's Army) expects no financial benefits from its support of the shepherd center for its ongoing operations.

Other grants which assisted the organization in acheiving the stated mission