WHAT ARE SOME OF CASA DE LOS NIÑOS SUCCESS STORIES OF THE PAST YEAR?
Jil: One story in particular stands out: a little girl who came to Casa. She was very thin, and couldn’t/wouldn’t eat an adequate amount. As her nutrition improved, this child flourished. All of a sudden she was having eye contact, she was interacting socially, she was smiling, she was laughing, she was interested in toys. Her recovery was so remarkable: Everybody was thrilled the day that she got mad when somebody tried to take a toy away, because this had been a child that just sat there. Children that don’t have an adequate amount of food don’t have enough energy to interact. And if you don’t have enough energy to interact, you can’t learn…You have no building blocks. Working with the staff at Casa has been the most wonderful experience I’ve ever had with a group of professionals, because it happens. You make suggestions on formulas, and it happens. And they have a well-trained staff for feeding. The nursing staff–Rosie Dyer is the head of the nursing staff–and Jean Fast are fab
