HealthWorks! Kids' Museum St. Louis Receives Funding

HealthWorks! Kids’ Museum St. Louis is pleased to announce that the Dana Brown Charitable Trust has awarded $25,000 in grant funding to the organization, and the Mid America Transplant Foundation has gifted $5,000, to help support admission scholarships for students. The grants will allow HealthWorks! to provide free admission and transportation services for 5,000 disadvantaged children, preschool through 5th grade, and their caregivers from Saint Louis Public Schools and other St. Louis Metropolitan schools.

The grant funding will provide students the opportunity to experience a two-hour field trip that includes a showing of HealthWorks! Mouth Movie, informative health lessons, time to explore all of the interactive exhibits and the ability to engage in their choice of one of many nutritional programs offered at the museum. The educational programs at HealthWorks! Kids’ Museum St. Louis take an in-depth look at an array of different topics designed to improve the oral and overall healthy habits of children and families.

“Our main mission is for students to take what they have learned during their experience here and be able to directly apply it to their daily life,” said Shannon Woodcock, president and chief executive officer of HealthWorks! Kids’ Museum St. Louis. “We are tremendously grateful for the funding received by the Dana Brown Charitable Trust and the Mid America Transplant Foundation to make it possible to send so many area students to HealthWorks! for an enjoyable health program experience.”

HealthWorks! Kids’ Museum St. Louis is located at 1100 Macklind Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63110. General admission to the museum is $7 for ages three and up. Members and those under two are free. To learn more, call 314-241-7391, visit www.hwstl.org, like the museum on Facebook or follow them on Instagram @healthworkskidsstl.

The Dana Brown Charitable Trust provides for the health, education, and welfare of disadvantaged children and the health and welfare of animals in the St. Louis Metro area. Visit the Dana Brown Charitable Trust at www.danabrowncharitabletrust.org.

Mid-America Transplant is a not-for-profit organization, located in St. Louis, MO, and is one of 58 federally designated organizations of its kind in the United States. Since 1974, Mid-America Transplant has facilitated the organ and tissue donation process for a service area of 4.7 million people in eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and northeast Arkansas. Visit the Mid America Transplant Foundation at www.midamericatransplant.org.

HealthWorks! Kids’ Museum St. Louis came into existence as a result of efforts to expand The Delta Dental Health Theatre to address broader, overall health issues after Delta Dental of Missouri became a major corporate sponsor in 2004. Those plans evolved and grew more ambitious over the next several years, ultimately leading to the closure of the original theatre on Laclede’s Landing in downtown St. Louis after 38 years so it could be housed in the new, dramatically expanded museum. The Delta Dental Health Theatre was originally organized as a program under the Foundation of the Greater St. Louis Dental Society in 1977. In 2002, it was incorporated as an independent 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization.