Home Nursing Agency's Healing Patch Recruiting Sewing Volunteers

When a child loses a loved one to death, life is filled with gaps emotionally, mentally and physically. Home Nursing Agency Healing Patch sewing volunteers give their time and talents to bridge that physical gap and give children a tangible connection through memory bears and pillows from items belonging to the loved one.

“It’s something they can hold and hug to find comfort in and be able to heal,” shares volunteer Janet Smith of Ebensburg, who wanted to get involved after personally experiencing the security and support of hospice for her dad and father-in-law. “I pray over the materials whe...