Integrative Touch for Kids™ (ITK)
is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose purpose is to enhance well being, minimize suffering and facilitate healing for children with developmental disabilities, genetic conditions, cancers, and other chronic, acute and life limiting illness.
One Child, One Family, One Community
Integrative Touch for Kids is working to change the way people think about health and healing for children with special needs and their families. We are creating a new model of care that recognizes the whole child and the whole family. When a child has special needs their family has special needs. We empower families and create networks of support within communities.
In July of 2009 we completed the launch of our pilot healing retreat serving children with special needs and their families. The highly successful program that integrated whole systems medicine and a whole family approach was the first of its kind in the nation. Our healing retreats form the first circle of an integrated community by bringing together families with children with special needs, host families, volunteers, and healing arts practitioners. The retreat becomes a meeting place where a sense of community can be developed and fostered.
Videos About Us
The "Healing Retreat" Video: This video showcases our first retreat and features some of the families, medical professionals and healing arts practitioners that helped to make this fantastic experience possible!
Click to here watch the video on youtube.
The "We Have a Dream" Video: We have a video that describes in more detail the dream for the Healing Retreat Center. Watch it here now (10 minutes).
Healing Retreat Center
Integrative Touch for Kids is committed to creating a first of its kind healing retreat center for children with special needs and their family members. The center will use a whole systems approach to health and healing and will provide a supportive environment to rest, rejuvenate and heal. The goal of the retreat center is to create a safe, nurturing environment where children and caregivers can feel that their physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs are met. Healing work addressing family dynamics and interpersonal relationships will be explored. The center will be unique in that it will provide a range of integrative healing therapies along with appropriate medical supervision and care. This is a multi-stage, multi-year project beginning with a pilot program that was launched at the White Stallion Ranch July 19-25th, 2009, and expanding into a state of the art healing retreat center with programs for families around the world.
