Child’s Voice Receives Grant From Philoptochos Medical Fund

Child’s Voice was honored to be one of 17 grant recipients recognized at the Philoptochos Children’s Medical Fund Luncheon on Saturday, November 16. The organization’s Early Intervention program received a $25,000 grant from the fund, which benefits the medical needs of children in the six states that comprise the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago.

Child’s Voice, based in Wood Dale and the Roscoe Village neighborhood in Chicago, helps children with hearing loss learn to listen and to speak. Students wear hearing aids and/or cochlear implants, and programs use a child-focused, research-based curriculum, all with the end goal of transitioning graduates back to their neighborhood schools. The Child’s Voice program serves nearly 400 children and their families each year.

The Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society, Inc. is the philanthropic arm of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America that has offered 88 years of philanthropy through a multitude of programs that make a difference in the lives of people in the United States and throughout the world.

Since its establishment in 1989, the Children's Medical Fund has provided grants for innovative research programs to pediatric hospitals throughout the United States and to organizations with special programs that care for children with critical and life-threatening illnesses.

“This grant from the Philoptochos Children’s Medical Fund will greatly help our Early Intervention program continue to help children with hearing loss across Illinois acquire listening and speaking skills during critical growing years,” said Child’s Voice Director of Advancement Kate Bousum. “We are so grateful to the Philoptochos Society for their extremely generous support.”

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