2025-09-02T15:18:38-04:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 823992153 Prescription Joy % Cortney Busch PRES 2532736076 1735 Duels St New Orleans LA 70119 Alex Smith Artistic Director 2025-09-03 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.PrescriptionJoy.org X X 86127 X 53475 32652 0 0 0 86127 63984 1207 12070 77261 8866 21592 30458 X 21592 24027 0 0 0 7031 21592 31058 0 600 21592 30458 Mission: Prescription Joy supports holistic healing through curiosity and interpersonal play. Vision: Transformation through curiosity and interpersonal play. Our Core Values: Everyone has a right to joy. Transparency Sustainability Equity Care Joy. Prescription Joy interacts with children families older adults and staff members of hospitals assisted living facilities and shelters in the Greater New Orleans Louisiana area. We aim to transform an environment of stress fear loneliness and boredom into one of human connection imagination and play. Prescription Joy also hosts community health talks and produces originally written hospital plays that tour to each location. Prescription Joy serves children and families across the Gulf Coast through regular visits at four key locations: Manning Family Childrens Hospital New Orleans Ochsner Childrens Hospital St. Bernard Parish Hospital and the New Orleans Women and Childrens Shelter. At each site our therapeutic performance artists create moments of play laughter and connection that support the well-being of patients families and staff. Beyond direct visits we invest in continued education for our healthcare clowns. We host trainings in trauma informed care child development while also collaborating with local and international experts to expand skills in puppetry improvisation and somatic practices. Our artists participate in debriefs and reflective supervision after visits ensuring growth in artistry and compassion. Through this focus on bringing joy into hospitals and sustaining professional development we strengthen the standard of care in therapeutic healthcare clowning. 14100 49047 Partnerships with local organizations such as Goat in the Road Productions to support young play writes and Lighthouse Louisiana to gameify occupational therapy activities for children with different visual conditions. 0 7151 56198 Cortney Busch President Director 2 0 0 0 Marisa Morton Secretary Director 2 0 0 0 Pam Roberts Treasuerer Director 2 0 0 0 Katie Thibodeaux Director 2 0 0 0 Dan Pruksarnukul Director 2 0 0 0 Colette Gaffney Director 2 0 0 0 Robin Vander Director 2 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false false false LA Alexander Smith 1735 Duels St NewOrleans LA 70119 2532736076 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 42249 32951 44330 42072 53475 215077 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42249 32951 44330 42072 53475 215077 215077 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 215077 1 1 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Travel and Meeting Expenses, $3640| Program Expenses, $3249| Advertising and Marketing, $1115| Office Supplies and Software, $840| Training and Development, $2345| Other Expenses, $881| Part II, line 24 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Pre-Paid Insurance, $0, $1456| Accounts Receivable, $0, $5575| Part II, line 26 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Accounts Payable, $0, $600| Part I, Line 1 | Explanation:| The organization received restricted contributions totaling $13,500 in 2024 that are designated for 2025 program activities. Consistent with IRS reporting requirements these amounts are included in contributions for 2024 in Part I line 1. Related expenses will be reported in 2025 when program activities occur.