Lauren’s Legacy: Mallee Ward gardening art project

Play Therapist, Kate, with supplies for Lauren's Legacy gardening art project.

Lauren’s Legacy: Mallee Ward gardening art project

Posted: June 8, 2021

Mario Corena is a passionate advocate for young people experiencing mental illness. His daughter Lauren died nearly six years ago after spending much of her early adolescent years in the Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s...

Maybelle Swaney provides Music Therapy to babies in WCH nurseries.

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Music Therapy: the power of mum’s voice

Posted: May 11, 2021

“A mum’s voice in a hospital setting is the safest sound the baby will hear while they’re there,” said Registered Music Therapist, Maybelle Swaney. “How lovely would it be to hear mums all throughout...

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CAR-T cure for childhood cancer one step closer to clinical trials

Posted: May 11, 2021

A revolutionary therapy that homes in on and destroys cancer cells could soon be used to tackle hard to treat cancers, including those commonly seen in children. The CAR-T Cancer Immunotherapy Research project is...

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Petrick family’s 1700km journey to the ‘Laklinyeri’ Beach House

Posted: May 11, 2021

“It just felt like people cared and that they knew this was hard for us,” Justine Petrick said about her family’s stay at the WCH Foundation’s ‘Laklinyeri’ Beach House. Justine is mum to Xander,...

The WCH Foundation is funding world-class research that will help to create a vaccine for COVID-19.

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Progress for South Australian COVID-19 research project

Posted: September 4, 2020

In early April, as Australians were experiencing the first COVID-19 lockdown and cases were on the rise, the WCH Foundation announced it would support a local collaborative project to research the deadly virus. The...

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