NEW YORK, JUNE 21, 2022 — Healthy and Ready to Learn (HRL), an initiative of Children’s Health Fund (CHF), today launched a set of online resources for parents, educators, and healthcare providers to prevent and address childhood trauma. Trauma, when unaddressed, can affect a child’s cognitive, physical, and emotional development. The COVID-19 pandemic has further
For much of the COVID-19 pandemic, life-saving vaccines were not available for children and adolescents. But now children five and older are receiving vaccinations, and starting this week, those as young as six months will be eligible. At minimum, expanding vaccine eligibility means that vaccinated children will face a much lower risk of infection, hospitalization,
Gun violence has been the leading cause of death of youth under age 20 in the United States since 2020, surpassing death from car crashes, cancer, and COVID-19. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data reveals that 4,368 U.S. children and adolescents under age 20 died from firearms in 2020, with 64% by homicide and
May 25, 2022 – There are no words that can sufficiently express the pain so many of us feel today about the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Instead, we can only hope that, at long last, our nation’s leaders take responsible action that will help bring an end to the senseless —
SPRUCE PINE – The Baxter International Foundation has announced that the foundation has awarded Children’s Health Fund (CHF) a $100,000 grant to continue and expand telehealth and COVID-19 response services for students in North Carolina’s rural McDowell and Avery counties. The funds will enable CHF affiliate, Center for Rural Health Innovation’s Health-e-Schools program, to provide
SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (WLOS) — Thousands of dollars in grant money will be going toward expanding COVID-19 response services for children in rural North Carolina schools. A press release says the Baxter International Foundation has awarded Children’s Health Fund (CHF) a $100,000 grant to continue its expansion of telehealth and COVID-19 response services for students
(SPRUCE PINE, N.C.) – The Baxter International Foundation has awarded Children’s Health Fund (CHF) a $100,000 grant to continue and expand telehealth and COVID-19 response services for students in North Carolina’s rural McDowell and Avery Counties. The funds will enable CHF affiliate, Center for Rural Health Innovation’s Health-e-Schools program to provide Pre-K through
The Baxter International Foundation has awarded Children’s Health Fund (CHF) a $100,000 grant to continue and expand telehealth and COVID-19 response services for students in North Carolina’s rural McDowell and Avery counties. The funds will enable CHF affiliate, Center for Rural Health Innovation’s Health-e-Schools program to provide Pre-K through 12th-grade students and school staff with
When people ask me what I value the most about the work of Children’s Health Fund, the obvious answer, and the one I never hesitate to give, is how every day across the country we provide vital healthcare services to children living in under-resourced communities to help them succeed and thrive. But also important to
Today is an important day in the history of Children’s Health Fund. It marks the 35th year that we have been providing comprehensive healthcare to help millions of children across America thrive and succeed. And while we are proud of our accomplishments over nearly four decades, we are even more excited about the new work
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nearly sixty years later, the words of our great civil rights leader still ring true. The abundant advances in healthcare and medical science that are
For their unrelenting commitment to providing healthcare to children, regardless of their ability to pay, Drs. Darlene and Jonathan Melk received the Irwin Redlener Award for Innovation and Advocacy at the Children’s Health Fund 2021 annual benefit. Darlene and Jonathan lead Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc. (CCHCI), serving a community in southern Arizona on the
