Charity Work
Coffey has been active in a number of charity activities such as volunteering and working for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin on "Project A.D.A.M." (Automatic Defibrillators in Adam’s Memory), an initiative begun after 4 young athletes died from sudden cardiac arrest during sporting activities.
Coffey is the founder of "Start a Heart" an organization founded in 2004 to talk to schools, teachers, parents and coaches about the need for Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) to be placed in school buildings and gymnasiums and to train students and staff on how to use them. She became involved in these causes after a younger cousin had been hit in the chest with a baseball, and immediate action saved the cousin’s life. The Start a Heart organization has supported the New Berlin Fire Department in their 2006 drive to have AEDs installed in all of the city ambulances, and fund raising efforts have been made through various events such as lectures, demonstrations and fundraising dance clinics.
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