Centers and programs

The hospital's child advocacy centers and programs focus on addressing the centers and needs of the many populations of children that we serve. Children's Memorial uses a public health model to shape the direction of our advocacy efforts, emphasizing prevention, health promotion and evaluation.

Our approach is to identify issues affecting child health and well-being — clinical, behavioral, and social — where our medical center expertise can make an incremental difference in improving children's lives. Through education and intervention, we hope to provide the resources that parents, teachers, and community leaders, and children themselves need to help our children grow up healthy and strong.

All of our advocacy programs are philanthropically supported, and many of our initiatives are incorporated into three levels of intervention:

Centers

A center of child advocacy is a long-term program that provides a comprehensive approach to an issue affecting children.

Demonstration projects

A demonstration project is a one-year pilot project that offers the opportunity to establish a child advocacy initiative on a small scale and to evaluate its effectiveness.

Continuation programs

Based on evaluated outcomes, demonstration projects may be expanded into more comprehensive initiatives as continuation programs that broaden outreach and intervention strategies.