Who We Help
- SKIP accepts all children with profound illnesses, complex medical conditions and disabilities (physical and/or developmental), regardless of whether they are enrolled in a reimbursable program.
- SKIP is one of the few agencies that will not turn a child away.
- The list of diagnoses for the children we serve is eight pages long and includes cerebral palsy, Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, spina bifida, mental retardation, traumatic brain injury, congenital heart defects, HIV/AIDS, sickle-cell anemia, cancer, autism and many others.
- More than three-quarters of the children SKIP helps live at or below the poverty line. Although SKIP does not yet have the resources to fund outreach, 40 new families still find the agency each month; 90% have no funding stream immediately available and must rely on SKIP for pro bono help. Because SKIP maintains a no-refusal policy and charges no fees to families for its services, some children must wait.
- SKIP’s waiting list is consistently 250 to 300 kids long; nearly as soon as a child comes off it, another goes on.
- 70% of the children SKIP helps live in one of the five boroughs of New York City. The balance live in various locations throughout the state of New York.