Homesteaders Life established The Daniel M. Voecks Fund in 2002. Grants from this $100,000 endowment will help train and educate those with an interest in therapeutic humor and in serving children and add to research about the benefits of humor therapy.

Humor therapy is the use of humor for the relief of physical and emotional difficulties.

The Voecks Humor Education Initiative sponsors training that leads to therapeutic applications of humor, with a particular interest in serving children in end-of-life programs and those who care for them.

Who was Daniel M. Voecks?