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 […]
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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 […]
What Happens When We Choose To Care By Arturo Brito, MD, MPH, President and CEO, Children's Health Fund
When people ask me what I value the most about the work of Children’s Health Fund, the obvious answer, and the one I never hesitate to give, is how every day across the country we provide vital healthcare services to children living in under-resourced communities to help them succeed and thrive. But also important to […]
Children’s Health Fund (CHF) Receives $1.5 Million From Red Nose Day 2022 Funding from Nationwide Fundraiser to End Child Poverty Helps Advance CHF’s Mission
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 […]
Statement on the approval of COVID-19 vaccinations for children 6 months through 5 years of age. By Arturo Brito, MD, MPH, President and CEO, Children’s Health Fund
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 Parents, educators, and healthcare providers can use the toolkit to prevent and address childhood trauma
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 […]
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From Washington Life magazine, Summer Edition 2022.
Vaccines, Equity, and Kids: Another Chance to Put Children First By Chanya Holness and Arturo Brito
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, […]
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 […]