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Helium is committed to nurturing and honouring creativity as a natural resource for a child s well-being. </p> <p>Helium supports a dynamic, child-friendly, family centred, holistic approach to children s medical provision, within community, primary, and acute healthcare contexts.</p> <p>Helium produces creative arts interventions for, with, and by young people which respond appropriately and adequately to their needs. Helium s services are participatory and collaborative.</p> <p>Helium works with highly skilled Artists-in-Residence to develop meaningful, arts engagements at a local level. They work with respect to the healthcare setting as a community, responding to patients, families, visitors, and staff and facilitating partnerships between departments.</p> <p>Helium aims to uphold the Arts and Health field as a creatively charged environment with which artists can engage, where art-forms can be challenged, enriched, and extended to produce ground-breaking, inventive new work which engages with the development of children s arts in Ireland.</p> <p>As a researcher, developer, and innovator of arts in children s hospitals and other healthcare settings Helium will strive to break new ground on both an artistic and a clinical level, blending science with art.</p> <p>Helium aims to ensure that all children in hospital in Ireland can collaborate with professional artists during their stay in hospital.</p> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <div class="sidebar-title"> <img src="images/directors_alt.gif" /> </div> <ul> <li>Tony Fegan</li> <li>Marie de La Guéronnière</li> <li>Dr Deirdre Sweetman</li> </ul> <br/> <br/> <a id="supportUs" href="friends.html" title="Support Us"><span>Support Us</span></a> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="push"></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-inside"> <div id="selogo"><a href="http://www.artscouncil.ie" target="_blank"> <img src="images/artscouncil.gif" /> </a> <a href="http://www.socialentrepreneurs.ie/" target="_blank"> <img src="images/sei.gif" /> </a></div> <div id="copyright"> <h6> All content © Helium 2010 </h6> <h6> Company number 486621, CHY number 19236</h6> <h6>Contact Us: <a href="mailto:info@helium.ie?subject=Email from Helium.ie"> info@helium.ie </a>| Phone: + 353 44 93 96 960 </h6> <h6>Design by <a href="http://maryplunkett.ie/" target="_blank"> Mary Plunkett</a>. 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