Congratulations to the HCHD Foundation 2023-2024 Children's Health Fund Recipients
The Harris County Hospital District Foundation Children’s Health Fund is a permanent endowment established to support children’s health issues in Harris Health System and the Harris County Community.
The Children’s Health Advisory Committee met on May 4, 2023 where they reviewed, evaluated, and agreed to support seventeen programs for a total of $766,154.00.
On behalf of the Harris County Hospital District Foundation Board of Trustees and the Children’s Health Advisory Committee, it is our pleasure to congratulate our 2023 – 2024 Children’s Health Fund recipients!
Read below about each organization on their project supported by the Children’s Health Fund.
Baylor College of Medicine
$30,000.00
upStart Community Programs Support
A suite of community-based programs offers to families with young children that addresses early brain development, social drivers of health, mental health, and maternal-child health and wellness.
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Cherish Our Children
$30,000.00
GEMS ( Gaining Empowerment in Middle School)
Assists early adolescents of incarcerated parents with their cognitive, social, and emotional growth to improve school performance and graduation.
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Children's Transplant Initiative
$20,000.00
Children's Transplant Initiative General Operations
Administers a "R" Rooms (Rest, Relax, and Recover) hospitality accommodations program, Family Assistance, and Hope Lifeline programs.
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Community Family Centers
$25,000.00
CFC's Youth Services Program
Provides educational support and enrichment activities that bridge gaps in learning, improve academic performance and social skills, and offer health education and nutritious meals for children in Houston's under-represented East end neighborhoods.
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Discover Fitness Foundation
$20,000.00
DFF Transportation Funding
Provides free fitness classes to the underserved children of Clemente Martinez Elementary and the special needs children at Next Step Academy. The schools cannot afford the high cost of transportation.
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Epilepsy Foundation of Texas
$11,550.00
EFTX E-SMART Program
The Epilepsy Self-Management, Advocacy, &
Resilience for Teens (E-SMART) Program is a
six week, virtual self management program, helping ensure teenagers, ages 13-17, living with epilepsy can manage this disease and its effects on everyday activities.
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Harris Health System
$192,407.44
Texas Health Steps Clinic Postpartum Follow Up Integration
The Texas Health Steps Pediatric Clinic assess for signs and symptoms of both
postpartum depression using the Edinburgh
Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and
preeclampsia.
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Houston Achievement Place
$20,000.00
Project CLASS (Children Learning Appropriate Social Skills)
Equips children 3-8 years old with core foundation skills for improved behavior, learning readiness, & academic achievement, HAP has developed the Children's Books Animated Films Social Skills Initiative.
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Houston Area Women's Center
$92,196.56
Behavioral Health Services for Children Survivors of Violence
Improving the mental health and
physical well-being of children survivors impacted by experiences of domestic, dating, and sexual violence through counseling, evidence-based assessment tools, enrichment services, and resource referrals to social and health services, as needed.
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L.I.F.E. Houston
$25,000.00
Food for Babies
Providing emergency formula at no cost to caregivers, to ensure all babies in the Houston area gets a strong start to life and no baby goes hungry.
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Prevent Blindness Texas
$25,000.00
Star Pupils Children’s Vision Screening and Early Detection Program
Providing preventative vision screenings, eye health education, navigation, and financial resources for eye exams, eyeglasses, and other eye care treatment needs and primarily focus on serving all children with a secondary
focus on school-aged children in grade levels 7-9 that are at risk of not being detected for vision problems.
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reMind Depression and Bipolar Support
$10,000.00
Free Peer to Peer Support Groups and Mental Health Education to Support Youth
Supports youth groups that are currently being held in middle schools, high schools, community groups, and online with mental
health education viewings, and suicide awareness presentations.
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SEARCH Homeless Services
$95,000.00
SEARCH's Play/Family Therapy Program
SEARCH's Play/Family Therapist works with
the children and families by conducting play-based therapy sessions to uncover, understand, and address underlying
traumas and teaches parents strategies that will improve attachments between parent and child.
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Ibn Sina Foundation
$35,000.00
Expansion of Mental Health Care Services to Uninsured Children and Families in the Houston Region
Provides integrated behavioral health care
services, including Telehealth and telebehavioral health services to underserved
children and families in the Greater Houston
area without access to traditional health care.
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Texas Hearing Institute
$50,000.00
Loss to Follow-Up Initiative
Provides low income children who are deaf and hard of hearing with timely audiology and speech therapy services, regardless of their family's ability to pay, so they can develop at a rate that is consistent with their hearing peers.
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The Women's Home
$50,000.00
The WholeLife Collaborative - Physical Wellness Expansion
Improves the health and overall wellness of low-income children living in the Spring Branch East by offering yoga, karate, Latin dancing,
and other fitness activities that will support/enrich our existing primary and behavioral health care options.
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Young Audiences, Inc. of Houston
$35,000.00
Self-Care Lab at Cullen MS, Wheatley HS, Kashmere HS
An inclusive space where students and staff experience Healing Arts with YAH Teaching Artists through meditation, sensory activities, group discussion, self-exploration, writing and reflection, poetry, visual art, music, movement, and other restorative practices.
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