Since Operation Assist began in September 2005, the Children’s Health Fund has created three new permanent projects in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the Mississippi Gulf. Our national network staff has provided care at over 19,000 patient encounters.
Much of the work of our three new projects involve working with our partners to provide health care to children and families in the FEMA trailer shelters, re-opened schools, housing projects and similar sites where needs continue to be great. We are supporting, with our local partners, the provision of medical homes for children who were medically underserved before Hurricane Katrina and who currently are experiencing a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.
Our service sites range from the Renaissance Village FEMA trailer park in Baton Rouge to the only school open in Chalmette, St. Bernard’s Parish, (New Orleans) to the Head Start program in Gulfport, MS.
