Healthcare worker, Mom, Daughter, cancer survivor, and an inspiration – Charmane Braxton is the epitome of giving back.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has received a $300,000 grant from Rite Aid Healthy Futures to expand the impact of Healthier Together programs focused on healthy food access. Healthier Together will partner with the Garden at the Nicolas and Athena Karabots Pediatric Care Center in West Philadelphia, Medical Financial Partnership and Family Justice Partnership.

The innovative Food as Medicine program bring food and nutrition education to families facing food instability.

 In an abstract presented at AHA, researchers found Black children are more than four times as likely to experience cardiac arrest and have significantly worse survival outcomes.

Since 2002, Youth Heart Watch (YHW), an affiliate of Project ADAMÒ, has been a resource for the community to help prevent sudden cardiac death (SCD) in children and adolescents across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

Spurred by seeing the overwhelming need during the pandemic, ER clinicians founded Family Connects to help families with needs like food and diapers.

Neighborhood socioeconomic status and travel time to driving schools significantly impacted access to driver training and getting licensed.

Michelle Belser has worked at CHOP for 24 years. During that time, she’s held a variety of roles in supply chain management helping procure the supplies that are needed each day to keep operations at CHOP running smoothly.

Dr. Kia R. McCray, DSW, LSW is a licensed Doctor of Social Work, author and entrepreneur who has a passion to help others and to serve a greater purpose to make a difference in the world. She joined CHOP’s Neonatology Department a year ago, and during this time she has worked as an Enterprise Improvement Analyst.

CHOP hosted an event for women-owned businesses as part of its efforts to increase the number of minority suppliers.