Kraddick’s Legacy Lives On

• On Wednesday, April 4, Kidd’s Kids‘ CEO & Chief Happiness Officer Caroline Kraddick, daughter of the late, great Kidd Kraddick, along with “Music Meets Medicine” Founder Dr. J-Mack Slaughter officially opened the doors of the Kidd’s Kids and Music Meets Medicine Therapeutic Arts Room in memory of Kidd Kraddick at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, the flagship hospital of Children’s Health. The Therapeutic Arts Room is a special place where kids can look beyond healing their physical conditions and, with the help of music therapists, focus on some of the simple pleasures of childhood. Patients will have access to musical instruments and music lessons, along with arts and crafts, while they receive treatment

In 2013, Dr. Slaughter and Caroline Kraddick, with support from the nationally syndicated Kidd Kraddick Morning Show and their loyal listeners, launched a campaign to raise $150,000 to create the room, which is dedicated in memory of Kidd Kraddick, who also mentored J-Mack Slaughter in his “previous life” as a member of Kidd’s boy band, “Sons of Harmony.” Dr. Slaughter said, “It’s incredibly rewarding to know that this room will be there to help some very special kids and their families focus on healing through the power of music. We also will have the ability to help them use the time spent in the hospital to learn new creative skills.”

Ms. Kraddick said, “Thanks to Dr. J Mack Slaughter, the Kidd’s Kids Board of Directors, and of course, all of the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show listeners who contributed to this room to honor my dad. We have already made special memories here thanks to the power of music which brings us all together.”

Pictured during the ribbon-cutting, (l-r): Kidd Kraddick Morning Show members Big Al Mack and Jenna Owens, Caroline Kraddick, and Kidd Kraddick Morning Show members Kellie Rasberry and J-Si Chavez. The story was also featured on “a local television station.”