New York City Flagship Programs
New York Children's Health Project
South Bronx Health Center for Children and Families
The Harlem Children’s Health Project
CHF’s history and record of accomplishments started in New York in 1987. In that year, some 9,400 children were living in homeless shelters and welfare hotels around the city. CHF co-founders Dr. Irwin Redlener and singer/songwriter Paul Simon were determined to find a way to provide these very vulnerable children with comprehensive, consistent, quality health care.
Their activism launched The Children’s Health Fund’s first program, the New York Children’s Health Project. Though CHF’s National Network of projects now extends across the country, New York is still a central focus of our health care and advocacy efforts. As our “flagship programs,” the mobile medical units and fixed-site health centers are models for what works in urban and rural settings alike.
