NEW YORK, August 22, 2022 – Children’s Health Fund (CHF) today released “My Health Passport”, a handy tool families can use over the school year to track their children’s vision, dental, and mental health as well as other conditions—such as asthma—that can affect classroom performance. The 12-page booklet—chock full of practices that support a child’s health
By Ella Lee, USA TODAY The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services aims to make enrolling in government health care programs easier for low-income kids, disabled people and older adults by cutting red tape, according to a proposal announced Wednesday. The proposed rule, provided first to USA TODAY, takes steps to reduce the paperwork burden often associated
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) 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
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
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
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
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 —
