Beads of Courage

Beads of Courage:Jean Baruch is a remarkable nurse who understands how to help children with serious illness become Healthy Survivors.

While working on her PhD at the University of Arizona School of Nursing, Baruch sought a practical yet meaningful way to acknowledge the many challenges children face and overcome while dealing with serious illness. After in-depth research of the medical and psychosocial literatures, she came up with Beads of Courage.

Children make bead necklaces, where each bead represents one challenge they've overcome. So, for example, a white bead represents a chemo treatment and a red bead a transfusion. Children have beads for losing their hair, having surgery, undergoing bone-marrow biopsies, and so on....Read more