New Albany Fall Festival Raises Funds for Pediatric Seizure Monitors

A fall festival in New Albany, Indiana, has raised money to buy seizure monitors for children with epilepsy, organizers announced under the banner of Camilla's Gift, the charity behind the event.

The campaign targets a concrete gap in epilepsy care. Children with uncontrolled seizures, particularly nocturnal events, depend on detection devices that can alert caregivers the moment a seizure begins. For many families, the cost of that hardware remains the barrier.

Camilla's Gift directed the festival proceeds toward supplying those monitors to affected children, converting a community fundraiser into monitoring equipment that will sit at the bedside of pediatric patients.

What seizure monitors do for families

Seizure detection devices typically use physiological signals — movement and muscle activity among them — to identify convulsive events and trigger an alert to a parent or caregiver. SUDEP, or sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, occurs most often during unsupervised sleep, which makes nighttime detection the central concern for families of children with frequent seizures.

No detection technology catches every seizure type, and clinicians routinely counsel families that monitors supplement, rather than replace, supervision and medical management. For households that cannot afford them, a donated device closes a real safety gap.

Why community fundraising fills the gap

Insurance coverage for seizure monitors varies, and out-of-pocket costs put the devices beyond reach for many families. Charity-driven programs such as Camilla's Gift step in where reimbursement ends, an approach used by epilepsy organizations across the United States to place monitors with pediatric patients.

The New Albany festival follows that model: local proceeds, local beneficiaries, equipment delivered to children who need overnight detection.

What comes next

Organizers of Camilla's Gift have positioned the fall festival as a recurring fundraising effort, suggesting further monitor placements in future event cycles. Families and clinicians in the New Albany area can expect additional devices to reach pediatric epilepsy patients as the charity distributes the funds raised.