Health care for 9 million children is at risk, as states begin to notify families that they may need to seek other insurance options. CHF’s Dr. Marcee White, Medical Director of The Children’s Health Project of D.C. speaks to Soledad O’Brien and Matter of Fact about The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Watch the full

While a largely restored economy brings glad tidings and hope to many in our country at the end of 2017, low-income families remain burdened with a host of unresolved issues that threaten to undermine the child health safety net they depend on. So, as we give thanks and celebrate the holidays, we must remember this

Dr. Irwin Redlener addresses the growing crisis of child homelessness in New York City on The Leonard Lopate Show. Listen to the full interview at WNYC.org

A Port Washington student chose to pay it forward for her 10th birthday by encouraging family and friends to donate funds for hurricane relief in lieu of gifts. Téa Cotronis, a fifth-grader at John Philip Sousa Elementary School, reaped $400 last month after she sent out birthday invitations with a note at the bottom requesting

William wouldn’t show his eyes. The guarded, gaunt 10-year-old gazed at the floor of Dr. Irwin Redlener’s mobile pediatric unit parked in his Brooklyn neighborhood, answering the pediatrician’s questions in monosyllables. Then Redlener, who dreamed up the mobile unit — a big blue bus — with his wife, Karen, and singer-songwriter Paul Simon to bring health

The Florida flooding didn’t deter Lisa A. Gwynn, D.O., M.B.A., CPE, FAAP, for long. Based at Miami Miller School of Medicine, she oversees a pediatric mobile health clinic affiliated with the Children’s Health Fund, as well as nine school-based health clinics. Before the clinic went back on the road to see patients, Dr. Gwynn had

Dr. Julie Kaplow founded the Trauma and Grief Center at the University of Michigan in 2012 before moving it to the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 2014, and then to the Texas Children’s Hospital in August, before Harvey struck. The center will open the Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program in early October

Watching the water level slowly rise outside her house, seven-year-old Molly wasn’t sure what she was supposed to do. Her Mom and Dad were monitoring the weather channel and checking their phones constantly trying to both assess the current situation and anticipate what might come next. They were playing it cool but they were clearly

While the post-Harvey educational context differs from New Orleans – which experienced a mandatory evacuation, major loss of life, and a state takeover of the school system – some of the insights gained as Katrina kids have grown up can help guide school officials in both the flooded Texas districts and the districts welcoming displaced

Irwin Redlener, president of the Children’s Health Fund, professor of pediatrics and director of pediatrics, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, and author of the forthcoming The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First Century America (Columbia University Press, 2017), talks about how individuals and governments

Cyclists will end their inaugural ride from California’s Central Coast to Las Vegas this evening. The event raises money for many needed programs like Three Square and the Children’s Health Fund medical mobile unit. We got a sneak peek at one of these buses rolling into town for the public event which starts at 5:30 pm at the Walgreens near MGM. Watch

A funny-looking fundraiser collected money for a cause that’s no laughing matter. Borough President Melinda Katz and officials from Walgreens and the Children’s Health Fund celebrated Red Nose Day Thursday. The annual event raises money for nonprofits that help children living in poverty by selling clown noses. At Thursday’s celebration, Katz toured The Children’s Health