The Children’s Health Fund has provided urgently needed medical assistance via its state-of-the-art Mobile Medical Units to victims of Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992, and at ground zero in New York City after the terror attacks of 9/11. With this experience gained in working with communities in crisis, CHF responded to the urgent health and public health needs of the Gulf Coast region that resulted from Hurricane Katrina by establishing Operation Assist, a collaboration with the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Operation Assist is poised to meet the challenges that will persist well into the future of this devastated region. Since September 2005, there have been over 19,000 medical and mental health visits provided in the devastated Gulf Coast Region.
Operation Assist’s programs provide critically needed medical services to children and families devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Three new permanent children’s health projects have been established in Gulfport/Biloxi, MS; New Orleans, LA and Baton Rouge, LA. Learn more about Clinical Services
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The Community Support and Resiliency Program (CSRP) provides children and families in the Gulf with critically needed mental health services in their affected communities. CSRP mobile mental health units are specially designed to help our programs in Gulfport/Biloxi, MS; New Orleans, LA and Baton Rouge, LA. Learn more about Mental Health Services |
Operation Assist identifies health and mental health needs of affected children and families and assesses environmental health impacts resulting from these disasters. By sponsoring comprehensive rapid health assessment of families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, CHF has found that thousands of children are in the midst of an unprecedented health crisis. Learn more about Public Health Services |
The Operation Assist Campaign for Children’s Health has mobilized national leaders in children’s health to call for Congressional hearings and emergency funding for children in the Gulf affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Learn more about Advocacy/Policy |
