About Our Bags

Rising Kites bags consist of educational resources and items of encouragement to assist families as they navigate life altering news. Bags are intended to be given to families within the first 2 years of receiving a diagnosis and are gifted to families and medical facilities at no cost.

Rising Kites Bags include:

• A Personal Letter from our family

• Welcoming a Newborn with Down Syndrome: A New Parent’s Guide to the First Month by Nancy McCrea Iannone and Stephanie Hall Meredith

• I Am Me by Katelyn Herrygers

• Rising Kites Community Card containing QR code to access local connections with families within the Down syndrome community

• Rising Kites Family Resources Card containing QR code access to state-specific resources to assist family with financial, medical, and Down syndrome specific questions

• Therapy Journal from The Glory Days, Co.

• AAP Guidelines for Families of Children with Down syndrome

• Toy Kite

• Toy Rattle

• Brochures for national resources

Rising Kites also provides access to resources and educational materials to medical professionals to improve the way in which families receive a diagnosis. Resources can be accessed here.