Bowtie Kids

Courage and Confidence for Kids with Chronic Pain

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Courage and Confidence for Kids with Chronic Pain

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OUR MISSION: To inspires courage and confidence in youth living with chronic pain and supports their families by transforming lives through personal development, community building, and gardening to build a sustainable quality of life.

Did You Know?

Over 1.7 Million Children in The U.S. Are Suffering from Chronic Pain

Despite the fact that over 1.7 million children in the United States are known to have chronic pain and that the cost of treating this pain is almost 20 billion dollars per year, chronic pain remains an invisible and under-recognized health problem for kids and teens.

Over 50% of Kids with Pain Have Some Level of School Impairment

  • Repeated absences
  • Difficulty keeping up with assignments
  • Lower grades
  • Increased risk of peer victimization

Chronic pain also often includes a tremendous psychological and social burden; children with ongoing pain regularly miss school, are unable to participate in activities.

Envisioning a World Where Kids Get to Be Kids...Free of Pain


Our Purpose

To increase the social and emotional learning capacity of children


and families impacted by chronic pain. 


By improving physical health and mental well-being, we strive to


reduce the levels of anxiety, depression, isolation, poor self-concept,


poor self-expression, opioid dependence, and the risk of suicide


through interactive and experiential learning.



Our 5 Empowerment Principles

Our Why

1 in 4 children under the age of 18 suffer


from chronic pain. CEO & Founder Karen


Prescod knows their struggles and


challenges all too well. 



Amid her chronic pain journey, she


envisioned creating a place to support


their needs and improve the lives of


children and young adults (5-21) living


with chronic pain and their families.


Our What​

We provide enrichment programming to


Increase children's social and emotional


learning capacity impacted by chronic


pain. 


Our enrichment programs are all


designed to create an environment of


exploration, discovery, acceptance, and


empowerment. 


Our goals are to promote self-efficacy,


foster the development of resiliency and


cultivate an awareness of self and others.


Our How

Using our 5 Empowerment Principles (Self-Discovery, Self-Awareness, Self-Worth, Self-Expression, and Social Engagement & Advocacy), we create the space for participants to create shifts in thinking to change conversations to WHO THEY ARE, not what they suffer from or what condition or illness they have.

Children With Chronic Pain Have Reduced Social Relationships and Are 3X More Likely to Have Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Than Children Without Pain


We Define Chronic Pain As…

… an unbearable, constant physical pain that limits and interferes with the childhood experience.

Family Perspective on Chronic Pain

Listen to a mom and her two kids talk about their experience with chronic pain.

Bowtie Kids Family Experiences

Listen to the experience both kids and parents have had with Bowtie Kids.

Our Mission

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