Volunteer Efforts
Please Support the CLEFTLINE ...a lifeline to newborns with facial birth defects.
Help Us to Educate, Advocate, and Illuminate
Perhaps you are not in a position to make a monetary donation, but you may be able to make a donation of your time. Join our grassroots effort, and help us spread the word to help other individuals and families.
- Educate others-legislators, teachers, health care professionals, and the public.
- Advocate for insurance coverage.
- Illuminate the lives of those with facial differences.
Ways You Can Help:
- Distribute CLEFTLINE flyers and brochures to your local hospitals and pediatric offices. Contact us to get a free supply!
- Offer to speak to parents of newborn babies in your hospital nursery. Have the nurses call you when a child is born with a facial birth defect.
- Provide publications such as our “Letter to a Teacher” to your local schools and Boards of Education. Tell them about the school program entitled “Unwrapping the Package” offered by AboutFace.
- Ask your local newspaper to write a feature article on issues facing people with facial difference. If you’d like, we can help to write it or provide information to the writer.
- Find out if you have a local support group, and get involved! You might even consider starting one yourself.
- Write to your state and federal representatives. We can provide information packets to help heighten their awareness of facial birth defects and insurance concerns.
- Talk to your cleft palate/craniofacial team about what state activities, including insurance advocacy, may benefit from your volunteer time.
- Hold a local fundraising activity to help support the CLEFTLINE. We’ve received support from golf tournaments and other sporting events, dance contests, and even bake sales.
Please let us know how we can support you in your efforts to educate, advocate, and illuminate!