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 […]

Kerry* has been living on his own since the day he turned 18 – the day he came out to his mom as transgender. The response to Kerry’s coming out was not one of love and support, just the opposite; Kerry’s mom told him to leave the house and never come back.  Since then, Kerry […]

  We’ve all been inundated, overwhelmed and moved these past few weeks by the images of children suffering. Children in strange places, separated from their parents, without a home or a support system. Many of these children are younger than ten years old; like any of us would be, they are scared. For the teams […]

  On May 17th, Children’s Health Fund & Nevada Health Centers, Inc., celebrated the expansion of our partnership with the unveiling of a new mobile medical clinic. The fully outfitted “doctors office on wheels”, which was built with funds from Red Nose Day USA, will be used to deliver high quality health care services to thousands of […]

Earlier this year, in a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Congress overwhelmingly passed a budget deal that was signed by the President.  That budget included a long-term extension of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This prudent bipartisan agreement ensured that, for the next 10 years, CHIP – a program crucial to the […]