In 2004, a fellow church member gave Touch founder, Cheri Buttrey-Jenkins, the gift of a day at the spa. The healing effects of that day gave her the idea that led to the founding of Touch. Cheri had been caring for her husband, Kenny Buttrey, who battled lung cancer for nineteen months before he passed away. The result of treatments… (more…)
Touch, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides the healing gift of touch to non-professional caregivers of terminally and chronically ill family members. Non-professional caregivers have demands placed upon them that create high levels of stress, which take a toll physically, mentally and emotionally. Touch was established to help relieve some of this stress through the gift of a day… (more…)