ROANOKE, Va. – Carilion is working hard to bring Christmas cheer to children and teens in the hospital.
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This holiday season, Carilion’s Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Unit and Carilion Children’s Hospital are working hand-in-hand to host a toy and clothing drive for hospitalized children and teens.
Carilion’s Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Unit treats children ages 9 to 17, and Carilion Children’s Hospital treats children ages 0 to 18. Officials said you can get gifts for any patients, but the greatest need is gifts for infants and teenagers.
The wishlist for patients at Carilion’s Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Unit is as follows:
- Clothing – socks, underclothes, sports bras; casual clothing - most wear adult-sized looser fit
- Balls
- Books
- Board games
- Card games
- Coloring books and adult coloring books
- Coloring supplies (prefer markers and crayons; no colored pencils)
- Movies/DVDs (nothing more mature than PG13)
- Stress balls and fidget toys
- Stuffed animals
- Video game consoles/video games
The wishlist for those between the ages of 0 and 18 at Carilion Children’s Hospital can be found on Amazon here.
Items that will not be accepted include used items; latex balloons or latex toys; candles, sharp instruments, or harmful objects; any items with religious sayings, symbols, etc.; or mature-rated games/movies.
You can visit Carilion Children’s Tanglewood Center during weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on weekends from 8 a.m. to noon to drop off your gifts in a donation box, which will be available in the lobby at Entrance 1.
If you’d like your gifts to be given to a specific patient population, you can place a note with your donation.
Carilion leaders said that masks are required to enter the facility and donations must be delivered by Dec. 21 this year for timely holiday delivery.