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Children’s Health Fund receives boost to benefit kids
NEW YORK – Children’s Health Fund launched its first mobile clinics for kids in underserved New York City communities 35 years ago. Today you can find them in 15 states, providing care for more than 100,000 children each year. A recent major donation will help even more young people thrive. Big blue buses bring the
Children’s Health Fund (CHF) Receives $1.5 Million From Red Nose Day 2022
Children’s Health Fund (CHF) announced today that it received $1.5 million from the record $49 million donated for this year’s Red Nose Day, funding that will help advance its mission to ensure that all children have access to quality healthcare. Comic Relief US launched the fundraising campaign in the United States in 2015 as an
Stories from the Frontlines
Children’s Health Fund (CHF) recently had the opportunity to sit down with Licensed Practical Nurse Maria Ramos from the Bronx Health Collective, a CHF National Network partner, to talk about her experience as a healthcare professional throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Maria has been at the Bronx Health Collective for eight years and had incredible insight
Statement on the approval of COVID-19 vaccinations for children 6 months through 5 years of age.
The life the COVID-19 vaccine saves may be your child’s It is heartening to see that at long last children under age five are being vaccinated against COVID-19. And while we welcome this development as an overdue step forward in bringing the pandemic closer to an end, we also hope that many more parents are
Statement on the approval of COVID-19 vaccinations for children 6 months through 5 years of age.
The life the COVID-19 vaccine saves may be your child’s It is heartening to see that at long last children under age five are being vaccinated against COVID-19. And while we welcome this development as an overdue step forward in bringing the pandemic closer to an end, we also hope that many more parents are
Healthy and Ready to Learn Initiative Launches New Toolkit
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
Vaccines, Equity, and Kids: Another Chance to Put Children First
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,
A Public Health Crisis: Gun Violence and Child Health and Well-being
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
Children’s Health Fund Responds to Uvalde, Texas Shooting
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 —
Telehealth services to expand for children in Avery, McDowell schools through $100,000 Baxter International Foundation Grant
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
$100,000 grant going toward telehealth expansion for children in rural NC schools
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
