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Every Family Has a Story…

Family Forum is a newsletter for families of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. The Summer 2008 edition (PDF) is now available to read!

Created and inspired by families, Family Forum shares the knowledge and wisdom of experienced families with children in the hospital and their families. The next issue of Family Forum will focus on collaboration.

To share your stories, or for questions or comments, please call Pat Schaffner, Families as Partners, (612) 813-6059, or e-mail your request to pat.schaffner@childrensmn.org.

To share your story about collaboration in an upcoming issue of Family Forum, please follow the steps listed below. A template is available to help you enter all our information and to print, save, or send your article. If you have a story to tell and would like help writing it, please call Pat Schaffner at (612) 813-6059.

1.) Write a story (250 words or less)

A template (PDF) is available to help you.

2.) Provide the following information:

Your name, phone number and / or e-mail address (we will contact you if your story will be included in Family Forum)

Your relationship to the child who was in the hospital (examples: yourself, parent, stepparent, guardian, sibling, grandparent, aunt/uncle, etc.)

3.) Send your story and information to Family Forum:

e-mail: family.forum@childrensmn.org

Online: You may use the “Children’s Story” submission page. Be sure to include “For Family Forum” at the end of your story so that we know that it is intended for the newsletter.

Print and mail:
Use your own format or use our template (PDF)
Family Forum, Mail Stop 17-505,
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
2525 Chicago Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55406

Questions, or in need of assistance to write an article?

With questions, please Call Pat Schaffner at (612) 813-6059. Also, call Pat if you have a story to tell and would like help writing it.

 


Read the Summer 2008 edition
(PDF)