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OUR IMPACT

At Creature Comfort Foundation, we do more than deliver toys—we deliver hope, healing, and emotional support.

Through partnerships with hospitals, Child Life Specialists, and dedicated volunteers, we provide plush companions and thoughtfully curated ComfortKits—coping boxes filled with storybooks, notepads, crayons, sensory items, and more—to children undergoing medical care across the country.

These aren’t just gifts. They’re tools for comfort, connection, and resilience. Whether it’s a soft plushie to hold during treatment or a kit designed to ease anxiety during a hospital stay, every donation is a step toward creating a more comforting healthcare experience for a child in need.

Together, we’re building a compassionate community—one delivery, one smile, and one child at a time.

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What our partners are saying…

  • “I love seeing the smiles on kids' faces when we give them a stuffed animal. And the stuffed animals comfort children, which allows our staff to deliver more effective medical care.”

    Jackie Noll, Director of Nursing in the Emergency Department, Cape May Regional Medical Center

  • “Our team was so excited to receive a donation of Slumberkins from the Creature Comfort Foundation. Our nurses gathered around the box and immediately started discussing which patients to hand out the stuffies and books to. A few of them loved them so much they said they are going to buy them for their kids too!”

    Ruthie Charendoff, MS, CCLS, CTRS-C, CPST, Certified Child Life Specialist, Pediatric Emergency and Trauma Departments, Cook County Health Chicago

  • “A hospital emergency room visit can be a very scary experience for a child. Our Creature Comfort program at Cape Regional helps put our youngest patients at ease. Their parents are equally as grateful. We are so excited to have this wonderful program!”

    Thomas Piratzky, Executive Director, Cape May Regional Medical Center

  • “Our first shipment of Slumberkins has already made a lot of kids here smile! Since I received the boxes on Valentine’s Day, I was able to give each of my seven long-term psych patients a Slumberkin as a Valentine’s gift. One of them even came up to me and said, ‘Miss Sam, I’ve never gotten a Valentine before!’ as she hugged her Slumberkin really tight. They LOVE them, and the books are so special.”

    Samantha Krawiec, Certified Child Life Specialist, UI Health Chicago

  • “Thanks to compassionate volunteers like Ava, our hospital is able to provide more compassionate medical care.”

    Ray Wisniewski, Director of Patient Experience, Cape May Regional Medical Center

  • “These gifts are unique and deliver such great messages for fostering growth and development. Especially in helping a little one with the array of emotions they experience and giving parents a tool to instill virtues that parents want their children to have.”

    Jo Ann Namm, M.S., CCLS, City of Hope Los Angeles

  • “This donation is truly incredible and has already brightened the day of so many of our patients.”

    Tori Zubrzycki, Nurse’s Aide at Weisman Children’s Rehabilitation, South Jersey

  • “As a certified child life specialist and facility dog handler, I love sharing the magic that facility dogs can bring to a nervous child in the hospital. Facility dogs bring comfort, love, and snuggles! However, this is just one interaction. Our partnership with Creature Comfort Foundation has allowed us to provide pediatric patients with Slumberkins, like Bigfoot Kin, so they have a little extra magic and love to stay with them throughout their hospitalization and back home with them.”

    Bridget Migliozzi, MS, CCLS, CEIM, Certified Child Life Specialist and Facility Dog Handler at Tufts Medicine Lowell General Hospital