Documenting Hope: Grassroots Initiative Tackles New Childhood Epidemics
“The Fierce Urgency of Now”
Some startling statistics:
- Rates of autism have risen over the last few decades from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 36 children. Autism costs the United States $126 billion per year.
- Asthma affects 1 in 8 children, and as many as 1 in 6 African American children. Asthma costs the United States $56 billion per year.
- One in 3 American children is either overweight or obese. Obesity-related medical costs account for $190 billion, or 21 percent of medical spending in the United States; childhood obesity carries a price tag of $14 billion a year in direct medical costs.
- One in 30 children is diagnosed with pediatric depression. The United States spends $83 billion a year on depression.
- Approximately 10 percent of American children have ADHD, and some 17 percent are labeled “learning disabled.” ADHD is estimated to cost the United States upwards of $100 billion per year.
There is a “fierce urgency of now” to take swift action to address this epidemic.
Documenting Hope
Documenting Hope is an innovative, not-for-profit project aimed at identifying and addressing the individual issues at the root of this epidemic. We test and document an integrative, results-oriented model of health care that takes a look upstream at the causes of chronic illness, rather than downstream at the symptoms.
There is a great deal of anecdotal evidence indicating that individuals with chronic conditions, even autism, can fully heal. Documenting Hope seeks to test and explore, through proper and rigorous scientific methodology, the underpinnings of these anecdotal successes.
A Unique Approach to Healing
Documenting Hope was founded on the belief that healing requires an integrative yet individualized approach, one that encourages the body’s own healing responses rather than suppression of symptoms.
Financial Support Needed
Documenting Hope is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing root cause healing solutions for children’s chronic health and developmental conditions. Documenting Hope provides resources and support for parents and practitioners who are ready to move beyond the conventional symptom-suppressive approach.
Your gift will help a child with chronic health or developmental conditions get the healing support they need!
About Beth Lambert
Beth Lambert is a former healthcare consultant and teacher. As a consultant, she worked with pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic and other health care companies to evaluate industry trends.
She is the author of A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children (Sentient Publications, 2010). She is also a co-author of Documenting Hope's Brain Under Attack: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers of Children with PANS, PANDAS, and Autoimmune Encephalitis. She is a co-author of Reversal of Autism Symptoms among Dizygotic Twins through a Personalized Lifestyle and Environmental Modification Approach: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, J. Pers. Med. 2024, 14(6), 641.
In 2009, Beth founded Documenting Hope and currently serves as Executive Director. Beth attended Oxford University, graduated from Williams College and holds a Masters Degree in American Studies from Fairfield University.
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