MISS Facilitator - Merced, California

Kim Lotz is a certified facilitator for the Merced, California chapter of The MISS Foundation. On January 11th, 1996 her first child Tyler was stillborn 3 days after his due date because of complications with his umbilical cord. Tyler's loss devastated both her and her husband Theo. They have found that the only cure for their pain is to reach out and embrace others enduring the same tragedy.
 
Kim’s chapter of MISS focuses largely on the Kindness Project. She believes this is an excellent way to allow healing for herself and others by doing random acts of kindness in memory of their children.
 
Kim has done several articles with newspapers and television stations in Central California about the Kindness Project, National Children’s Memorial Day, and her support group for parents who have suffered the death of their baby. She has a passion for educating communities on the great sorrow that follows the death of a child.
 
Kim has 3 living children, Theo II, Madalyn, and Hannah. Kim, her husband Theo, and their children live in Merced, California. Her favorite saying is, "We are five in our family. We are six in our family. Five and six at the same time. We have an invisible child that we carry with us without anyone seeing him ... Only when you choose to see our invisible child do you know our family."
 
Kim finds comfort in believing that Tyler lives on through the work she does with MISS and through the families that she allows his memory to touch.


To contact Kim, call 209/725-9241 or email her at kim.lotz@missfoundation.org