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11/01/2025

10/30/2025

10/25/2025

As National Respiratory Care Week comes to a close, we’re celebrating the incredible team behind Louisiana’s only Ventilator Assisted Care Program (VACP) here at Manning Family Children’s! 💙

This multidisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, respiratory therapists, and educators provides life-changing support to children and young adults who rely on ventilators and other respiratory technologies. Through training, home visits, and 24/7 coordination, they help families build independence and stability, improving outcomes and quality of life across our state.

Learn more about VACP at https://www.manningchildrens.org/community/ventilator-assisted-care-program/.

10/24/2025

10/15/2025

⚠️Defend Special Education Rights⚠️
Students with disabilities need your voice!
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10/14/2025

Congratulations to our extraordinary nurse, Brittney Bennett, CICU nurse, who was honored with the Manning Family Children's Umbrella Award! This award is given to a nurse who exemplifies all of the attributes in our Nursing Professional Practice Model: Compassion, Teamwork, Professionalism, Communication, and Quality of Practice and Evidenced-Based Practice. 💗🤍

Brittney is the cornerstone of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at Manning Family Children’s Hospital. Her unwavering compassion, tireless dedication, and quiet leadership make her the embodiment of everything this award represents. Brittney’s compassion is not just a trait—it’s a way of life. She cares deeply for every patient, every family, and every member of our team. Her presence brings comfort, her actions bring healing, and her heart brings hope. She genuinely wants the best for everyone she encounters, and it shows in every interaction.

Whether behind the scenes or front and center, Brittney makes the impossible look effortless. She is the glue that holds our team together, often orchestrating solutions before we even realize there’s a problem. Her ability to collaborate across the entire Heart Center is unmatched. She is kind, patient, empathetic—and a true leader.

We are so proud and grateful to have you on the team, Brittney!

10/13/2025

10/12/2025

🚨 Last night every Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) staffer, except one or two, was notified that they will be RIFed (fired). The notice to employees stated that the government shut down caused the RIFs, when in fact a shut down causes furloughs (temporarily not working), not firings. OSEP is the federal office responsible for implementing IDEA, the special education law, including funding and monitoring states, providing grants for technical assistance and parent information centers, etc. Apparently this has also happened at the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) that oversees vocational rehabilitation. NDSC is meeting through the weekend with other national disability leaders to strategize about how to fight this action that would be devastating to children, families, and schools. Stay tuned for more information. ��https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/10/11/education-department-special-ed-office-layoffs-shutdown/86646104007/ #

10/04/2025