Integrative Touch for Kids™(ITK) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit org whose purpose is to enhance well being, minimize suffering and facilitate healing for children w/ developmental disabilities, genetic conditions, cancers, and other chronic illnesses.
Our mission is to support the provision of integrative healing therapies in environments that serve children with chronic, acute and life limiting illness. We are committed to working directly with families and children with special needs, pediatric hospitals, hospices, and other organizations to provide healing services, consultation, education, program development and support. We work to educate integrative medicine practitioners and engage in scientific research to further the development of integrative medical services for vulnerable and underserved populations nationally and internationally.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for children with developmental disabilities, genetic conditions, cancers and other chronic, acute or life-limiting illnesses. We are creating a model of health and wellness that empowers children through a whole-system, whole-family approach and integrates them more fully into their families and their communities.
Integrative Touch for Kids recognizes when a child has special needs, a family has special needs. We care for the whole family by providing healing retreats, therapeutic services and on-going education in integrative medical therapies that can be implemented in the day-to-day lives of families. Our model supports the needs of the child, their siblings and primary caregivers. We believe that whole-child, whole family services should be available regardless of economic background and we strive to increase access to therapies that would otherwise be unattainable.
To study and develop the use of integrative medicine and our unique model of care, Integrative Touch for Kids engages in scientific research through collaboration with academic and medical institutions. We work directly with medical providers, pediatric hospitals, hospices, practitioners and families' home communities to provide consultation, education, resources and support.
Address: 5676 N. Oracle Rd., #3201, Tucson, AZ, 85704
Mailing Address: 8340 N. Thornydale Rd, #110-153
Tucson, AZ 85741
Our services are based on the philosophy that to improve the quality of life for a child with special health needs we need to focus on their family and the community. This includes caring for the whole child, including their mind, body, and spirit, their immediate family members, and their broader community. This concept of Whole child, Whole family, Whole community has led to the development of a program that supports children with special health needs and their families through healing retreats, ongoing care, continuing education and networks of community support. The first layer of our services, which we call the First Healing Circle, begins with a week-long healing retreat immersion program. This program is educational and experiential and serves as a catalyst for change and new possibilites for everyone involved.
