2020 – Canadian Healing Touch Program Mini Conferences
Recipient: Society of Healing Touch Program Alberta (SHTPA)
Date: September 2020
Amount: $1,500

These Mini conferences are open to build community and Showcase Healing Touch Program diversity in usages to other Healing Modalities, Professionals beyond and enhance the knowledge with practitioners, students and instructors of HTP. These fun filled days will highlight HTP and HTWF and SHTPA. One conference in fall 2020 and two in 2021.

 

The effects of Healing Touch on Adult Surgical Patients – A Pilot Study Affiliate: Mt Health Fairview Ridges Hospital – Burnsville, MN
Primary Investigator:
Greg Falvey BSN, RN-BC, HNB-BC, HTP
Secondary Investigator:
Sarah Wente, PhD, RN-BC
Date:
January 2020
Amount:
$1,100

HTWF has agreed to participate in the funding of a research pilot study: “The effects of Healing Touch on adult surgical patients” at Fairview Ridges Hospital, Burnsville, MN. The goal of this pilot study is to identify the positive or negative effects of Healing Touch on adult post-surgical patients with regards to pain, anxiety and/or difficulty sleeping in a community hospital setting.

 

2019 – Stories of Hand-On Healing

Recipient: Vitality Cincinnati, Inc.
Country: United States
Date: December 17, 2019
Amount: $950

HTWF board approved a grant to VITALITY Cincinnati Inc. in support of them publishing a Healing Touch Book. This new Healing Touch book is intended to provide testimonials of Healing Touch and its benefits from the many people who have learned of and taken a Healing Touch class through VITALITY Cincinnati. The goal is that the book will raise awareness of HT and will result in sales of the book. The proceeds of the book will then provide funds to continue to enrich the Buswinka Healing Touch Fund that has been funding scholarships for participants to take HT classes. We are also asking VITALITY to include an acknowledgement of HTWF supporting the publication of this book.

As background, VITALITY has hosted over 30 Healing Touch classes where 200 people have received scholarship assistance. Over five hundred people have experienced Healing Touch at VITALITY and its association with the Cincinnati-Bond Hill food pantry. Helen Buswinka, a HT student that volunteers at VITALITY and began this scholarship fund in 2017.