2024-08-29T02:37:36-04:00 2024-03-31 990EZ 2023-04-01 264352103 GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS % Paige Stringer GLOB 2066184201 19905 4TH AVE NE UNIT D POULSBO WA 983707587 Paige Stringer Founder and Executive Director 2024-08-29 2023 2024-08-08 14:25:15Z X www.childrenwithhearingloss.org X X 157572 X 150622 6950 0 0 0 157572 12798 1955 94 259098 273945 -116373 544373 428000 X 474582 400188 69791 27812 544373 428000 544373 428000 X To help babies and young children with hearing loss under 5 years of age living in low resource countries access the early identification hearing technology and locally-based professional support they need to listen and talk. We develop and implement programs with in-country partners to improve health and early education and raise awareness for pediatric hearing loss and available interventions. The GFCHL's Nepal program is a collaboration with the Hospital for Children Eye ENT and Rehabilitation Services CHEERS in Nepal. The multi-year initiative intends to demonstrate how the full Continuum of Care from infant screening to habilitation services can be implemented in a low resource country with challenging terrain to help babies and very young children with hearing loss to listen and talk. Such services and expertise are extremely limited in Nepal. There is also low awareness for that potential among families in the country. Both Nepali professionals and community ear health workers are engaged in this comprehensive program. In May 2023 and October 2023 the GFCHL professional training team began teaching the GFCHL's curriculum in pediatric audiology and auditory-verbal therapy to a cohort of 20 Nepali community ear health workers and audiologists in two 2-week training workshops. Families of children with hearing participated in the practicum sessions and attended a Family seminar. We also conducted 3 seminars for about 50 nurses pediatricians and other front line workers about pediatric hearing loss and how it can be addressed. Our Executive Director visited Nepal between training workshops to advance our program development conduct site visits and to cultivate GFCHL relationships with the CHEERS team and with other Nepali health professionals. 103915 109086 As part of its Nepal program the GFCHL donated a new audiometer speakers and real ear equipment to the Hospital for Children Ear ENT and Rehabilitation CHEERS for use in its pediatric audiology room. GFCHL also donated 3 otoscopes 3 infant hearing screening devices 3 tympanometers and 3 real ear equipment to CHEERS for use by the community ear health workers in remote clinics. These CEHWs are participating in the GFCHL's training program. The GFCHL also donated 48 new Oticon hearing aids to children under 5 years of age identified with hearing loss through this program. These children are being supported ongoing in their listening and spoken language development by the CHEERS team and CEHWs trained by the GFCHL. 52886 52886 The GFCHL Mongolia program is a collaboration with the Mongolia National Center for Maternal and Child Health and other partners in the Mongolian medical community to implement nationwide newborn hearing screening increase awareness for pediatric hearing loss and provide training in pediatric audiology and auditory-verbal therapy to Mongolian professionals and families to support babies and young children identified with hearing loss so they can learn to listen and speak. This year the GFCHL professional training team conducted our fifth 2-week training workshop in Ulaanbaatar to continue teaching the GFCHL's curriculum to 50Mongolian ENT doctors audiologists therapists and teachers. Families joined practicum sessions of the workshop to enable the participants an opportunity to apply what they were learning with oversight from the GFCHL professional team. Family members also attended a family seminar to learn how to support their children with hearing loss at home. 20000 39382 This year we signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Nairobi in Kenya in support of pediatric elements in the new national Ear and Hearing Care Strategy approved by the Kenya Ministry of Health in 2023. Our agreement starts with the GFCHL conducting a two-year training program in auditory-verbal therapy for a cohort of Kenyan speech and hearing professionals that will launch in June 2024. Kenya program expenditures this year were allocated to two program development visits to Kenya by the GFCHL Executive Director and advance expenses associated with the upcoming June 2024 two-week training workshop. 0 32588 The GFCHL is a member of the World Health Organization World Hearing Forum. The GFCHL Executive Director engages in committee work for the World Hearing Forum throughout the year and traveled to Geneva in November 2023 to represent the GFCHL at the World Hearing Forum annual meeting. 0 13705 247647 Edwin W Rubel President and Director 2 0 David DeYoung Treasurer and Director 2 0 Sharron M Stringer Secretary and Director 8 0 Jacque Patton Director 1 0 Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Director 1 0 Christopher Barrett Director 1 0 David L Horn Director 1 0 Christopher Harig Director 1 0 Frances Lalas Director 1 0 Paige Stringer Founder and Executive Director 60 122000 false false false false false 0 false false false false Sarah Svartstrom 7444 Drevo Court Melbourne FL 32940 7147917011 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE Paige Stringer 19905 4th Ave NE UNIT D Poulsbo WA 98370 Executive Director is paid as independent contractor for each GFCHL program she manages 122000 true X 165256 193928 180678 404393 150622 1094877 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 165256 193928 180678 404393 150622 1094877 0 0 0 11403 15896 27299 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11403 15896 27299 1067578 0 0 0 895 6950 7845 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 895 6950 7845 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 165256 193928 180678 405288 157572 1102722 0.9681 0.9893 0.0071 0.00 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Fundraising, $2069| Bank charges, $15| Supplies, $422| Website rental and maintenance, $131| Washington state charities registration fees, $60| Telephone, $2154| Conferences, $465| Insurance, $4702| Internet tools, $1433| Program expenses, $247647| Part II, line 24 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Intangible assets, $6316, $6316| Audiology and computer equipment, $1436, $1436| Inventory for sale or use, $62039, $20060|