She greeted him, and handed him one of the dinosaur-decorated comfort boxes that her nonprofit, Helping Hands in Healthcare, had assembled. Shields established Helping Hands in Healthcare both as a way to help rural healthcare centers meet patients’ comfort needs and provide teens interested in healthcare with volunteer and leadership opportunities. Helping Hands in Healthcare volunteers are also at work sewing flannel blankets for newborns as part of a third project, Project Woobie, which is being funded by donations collected at the Fredericksburg Food Co-op. Shields still leads Helping Hands in Healthcare along with a volunteer board made up of seven of her peers, many of whom want to go into healthcare as a career. Shields, Darr, and other board members will be graduating in the spring and many will be moving out of the area, but Helping Hands in Healthcare is set to continue.