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
When disaster strikes, it’s children who often suffer the most, especially kids living in poverty. Whether it’s a flood, hurricane or epidemic, Children’s Health Fund is committed to both responding quickly and staying for the long haul. The ability to act swiftly is critical in emergency response, and as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have shown
In 1986, as New York City reeled from a crack epidemic and runaway violence, Paul Simon, the musician, and Irwin Redlener, a doctor, paid a visit to one of the city’s notorious welfare hotels, the Martinique in Midtown Manhattan. The two had been working together to raise money and awareness for children in Africa, as part
In the South Bronx, Diana Cardona works as a dentist out of a giant blue truck, in a program run by the Children’s Health Fund and the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. The program gets federal funds to serve poor communities. “Can you fix this?” a woman once asked as she spat six crowns into her hand one by one.
The New Orleans Children’s Health Project is a partnership with Children’s Health Fund and gets funding from Red Nose Day. We meet Dr. Kim Mukerjee, a pediatrician for NOCHP, and Jeanne McKay, NOCHP’s senior program manager, at Tulane’s School of Medicine in Downtown New Orleans. McKay tells me their program was born out of Hurricane
(New York) – Children’s Health Fund, the nation’s premier nonprofit healthcare organization for disadvantaged children, announced two new members of its board of directors this week. World-renowned artist Chuck Close and biotech entrepreneur Dipal Doshi join the board as Children’s Health Fund enters its 30th year of service. “We are pleased to welcome Chuck and
The Dallas Morning News Reports A Cuban immigrant, a woman recovering from meth addiction and a young man fresh out of prison sat on a bus in the parking lot of the Salvation Army shelter. From different walks of life, they found themselves in the same place — homeless and long in need of medical
New York, NY (November 21, 2016) –Children’s Health Fund (CHF), a national health care nonprofit dedicated to medically underserved children across the U.S., today released a new report titled, “Unfinished Business: More Than 20 Million Children in the U.S. Still Lack Sufficient Access to Essential Health Care.” Children’s Health Fund’s analyses show that 20.3 million