How children’s hospitals help advance the health of their communities.
Children’s health starts long before a hospital visit.
It starts where kids live, learn, play, and grow.
Across the country, children’s hospitals work beyond their walls to address the conditions that shape lifelong health such as injury prevention, housing needs, nutrition insecurity, and mental and behavioral health.
Through strong community partnerships and targeted programs, pediatric hospitals are driving real progress for kids and families.
Explore strategies below.
Children’s Hospital Association is the national voice of more than 200 children’s hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost, and delivery of care.
A pediatric injury prevention specialist shares how building trust in rural communities is changing firearm safety conversations.
An emergency medicine physician gives advice children’s hospitals can use to help break the cycle of violence.
Children’s hospital staff demonstrate passenger safety tips at community events.
Learn how Children’s Hospital Colorado supports families without a stable place to call home.
Discover how a children’s hospital created first-of-its-kind safe, affordable housing for kinship families.
How children’s hospitals can improve health outcomes by enhancing patients’ home environments.
Learn why children need both food and nutrition security to thrive.
Pediatric hospitals play a central role in improving children’s nutrition.
Food insecurity is a health issue that requires more than medical treatment.
Pediatric hospitals are helping children live longer, healthier lives through programs that prioritize prevention, well-being, and resilience.
Learn how one children’s hospital soccer league has welcomed more than 15,000 children and families to address childhood obesity and diabetes in their region.
A children’s hospital's free program teaches kids and families in the community how to create healthy habits.
A personal connection helped expand developmental care for children.
Children's hospitals are using bold strategies, community partnerships, and creative workforce initiatives to address the youth mental health crisis.
A children’s hospital brings behavioral health care into schools to address widespread violence in its community.