Address
10 High Street P.O. Box 5300
Wakefield, RI 02880
Website
www.mattyfund.org
Description
Scholarships:
Awards college scholarships to high school seniors with epilepsy as a well- earned success. The Foundation also sponsors children for an epilepsy summer camp.
Research:
award grants to scientists on the cutting edge of epilepsy research.
Lecture Series:
With Hasbro Children's Hospital & Brown University Medical School.
Hospital Presentations:
they make presentations at regional hospitals about the critical dangers facing patients who enter status epilepticus- a prolonged seizure lasting up to an hour or more. Status epilepticus is life threating and must be treated aggressively.
Category
Children & Youth, Disabled, Education – Other, Health & Disease, Other