Teddy Bear Hospital
The Teddy Bear Hospital is a world-wide initiative that was introduced to Gold Coast primary schools by Hope4Health in 2007.
The Local Teddy Bear Hospital program aims to promote healthy living to primary school children via a series of interactive workshops.
As anxiety associated with visiting medical environments, procedures and professionals can prevent individuals from seeking help when they have health concerns, the program also aims to promote positive experiences with the health care system, to ameliorate this anxiety. The current program has been designed for children in Years 1 and 2.
Workshops include
- Healthy eating
- Visiting the doctor
- Exercise and being active
- Being sun smart
- Medicines safety
Schools we visited
- Marsden State Primary
- Woodridge State Primary
- Trinity Lutheran College
- Hillcrest Christian College
- King’s Christian College
- Coomera Anglican College
Sunset Soiree
The Sunset Soiree is one of Hope4Health’s corporate events that is organised once every two years. It is a cocktail charity event that helps raise funds for various Hope4Health’s corporate projects, which includes working with other not-for-profit organisations to support their projects.
After co-ordinating events in 2015, 2017, and 2019, the next Sunset Soiree will be hosted in 2021.
