Basically, all your fees pay for is your food. We solicit sponsors, grants and use general donations to fund room rentals, speakers’ (12-15 unbelievable docs and dentists donate their time each year) and staff travel, scholarship recipients, off site activities, AV rental and childcare costs.The NFED absorbs 75% of the cost of the event. The 2012…
Are you a Repeat Offender?
Charley Richter has attended 27 NFED National Family Conferences and Anil and Sean Vora have both attended 25. How close are you to reaching them? We will recognize our “repeat offenders” during Wednesday’s opening session. If you have attended at least five conferences, be prepared to be recognized!
The Value of a Family Conference
By Rachel Buerman The NFED Family Conference has been an invaluable experience for us. We attended our first conference in Colorado 2010. For the first time since Jordan was born we felt at home. We learned more from other families in 3 days than we had learned from our local doctors in 2 years. NFED…
The Talent Show is the Highlight for Me
I attended my first NFED National Family Conference in 2009 when it was held in Williamsburg, VA.. Immediately upon going through the doors, I felt a sense of welcoming and family even though I had never met anyone before. Until my daughter was born in 2007, I had never met or even spoke to anyone…
Meet the Kelsos & Huxmans!
The Kelso and Huxman families met in 2006 at the NFED Family Conference in St. Louis. Both have children affected by EEC syndrome and they found an instant connection with one another. Before that conference had ended, they were finishing each other’s sentences; their children were referring to themselves as “cousins”; and they were making…
A Doc’s Perspective on the NFED Family Reunion (aka Family Conference)
By Alanna F. Bree, M.D., NFED Scientific Advisory Council Attending the NFED Family Conferences are almost like a family reunion for me. Even though I am not related to anyone who attends, the people I have met through the NFED have become like an extended family to me. This includes babies, children & adults affected by…
Finding Money to Help Pay Your Family Conference Expenses
With a little searching and networking you can find money to help you attend a National Family Conference. Many families have been successful in obtaining funding from the sources below. It takes internet searches, phone calls and persistence. Call and ask about conference funding for families with special needs. If you hit a roadblock, ask…