This Black History Month, it’s important to reflect on the urgency of health care access in the black community and the strong legacy that ties this deeply essential work to the civil rights movement. Activists during the civil rights era recognized poverty as a major hurdle to achieving equality and other basic rights–such as healthcare–and […]

The first thing you notice about LaPorsha Bourne is that she is practically bursting with positive energy and excitement for the future. You would never guess the depth of the challenges she has faced, including being homeless with a young son. While many of us associate homelessness with the person asleep on the subway or […]

The results are in and Children’s Health Fund is proud to say MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! The H&M holiday gift card campaign exceeded expectations raising $500,000! How many times have we seen fanfare accompany an announcement of intentions but never really learned of the outcomes? Well, not here, and not with H&M! The campaign is an amazing […]

Every day aboard our Memphis, TN based mobile medical clinic, we meet children with lives of extraordinary hardship, and inspiring resilience who live the spirit of helping others. It is our goal that through the caring services of our medical teams we are able to help these kids grow up healthy and able to face […]

For over 30 years, Children’s Health Fund has been on the front lines delivering medical care to vulnerable children and advocating in support of programs and policies to ensure that all children have access to comprehensive, high-quality health care. Read More

Inspire and be inspired…that was the charge to the Children’s Health Fund (CHF) leaders from across our national network as we kicked off a three-day conference in Miami on October 16th. And inspire we did! Over the course of the gathering we listened, learned, and shared about what’s working in our efforts to break down […]

In trying to put the violent events in Pittsburgh and Kentucky into some sort of perspective, we here at Children’s Health Fund are struggling with our emotions.  Many of us work here in response to what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question: ‘What are you doing for others?’” In […]

  The cries were audible as I waited outside the exam room at the clinic at Children’s Health Fund’s Dallas program where eight-year-old Jerome* was being seen by a nurse. Jerome was complaining of ear pain, and had missed two days of school already. He, his mom, and baby brother were at the clinic when […]

For months, we’ve been anguishing over the separation of immigrant children and their families at the border, but not standing idle. We can’t; more than five hundred children remain separated from their families. That’s why on September 25th, ​Children’s Health Fund convened a roundtable discussion at the 2018 Concordia Summit in New York. The forum […]

It’s been an exciting time for children’s smiles here at Children’s Health Fund. We are sure you’ve thought that baseball isn’t exactly good for your pearly whites, (looking at you delicious Cracker Jacks), but in fact, that couldn’t be more false. This past July, MLB’s All Star Legacy project series unveiled a new mobile dental […]