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Public Education and Programs
The KidneyMobile®. The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois offers free screening and educational programs for people who are at-risk for developing kidney disease in conjunction with the KidneyMobile®, a 35 foot mobile unit that travels throughout the state of Illinois to provide free comprehensive kidney disease screenings and education. More information on the schedule and photos of the vehicle are available at www.kidneymobile.org.
Brochures and Fact Sheets. The NKFI provides a wide variety of educational materials relating to kidney and urological disease, dialysis, transplantation and organ donation. Individual sample copies are free of charge to patients, professionals and the general public. Multiple copies as requested by organizations are also available at cost. Spanish materials are available.
"Increasing Organ & Tissue Donation in the Service/Factory Workplace: A Peer Educator Approach" . NKFI and its consortium partners have developed and are implementing a model program to increase awareness of organ and tissue donation and transplantation through workplace interventions. The team will work to increase donation consent rates among employees and their family members within different corporations. A selected group of employees from each corporation will be asked to assist in delivering organ donor awareness campaigns through a variety of methods in an effort to educate fellow co-workers.
High School Organ Donor Education Program. Transplant recipients and donor families share their experiences with transplantation to high school students and encourage them to have a family discussion regarding organ donation. This program has education more than 120,000 students in Illinois since its inception in 1999.
Francis W. Parker School Community Service Project. Students from the Francis W. Parker School take part in a 12 week program that involves spending time with children who are on hemodialysis at the DaVita Children's Dialysis Unit.