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Why Help?


Your contributions are vital to our ability to carry out our mission to work in partnership with parents and our community.  An example of what your gifts support:

$  50.00 provides one hour’s worth of parenting education with an Outreach Worker.
$100.00 supports a Registered Nurse to conduct a developmental screening.
$250.00 enables one month’s worth of Mental Health Clinician counseling.
$1,620 will sponsor a child for one year of comprehensive home visiting services.
$4,000 delivers one year of comprehensive home visiting services by our team, to a family in the Richmond community.

For event sponsorships, please contact Amanda Abate Murphy 804-233-2850 x118

For more information, please contact our office at 804-233-2850. 

   

For the 2008-2009 program year, CHIP served 375 families with 817 children. Of these, 186 families with 338 children were newly enrolled. Registered Nurses, Outreach Workers and Mental Health Clinicians completed 4,561 home and office visits to families.

  • Primary Care Provider: 12% → 96%

Of the children under age six enrolled at least six months, 96% (356/370) have a regular source of health care with a primary care provider. At enrollment, only 12% had a primary care provider.

  • Immunization Status: 23% → 96%

Of the children under age six enrolled at least six months, 96% (354/370) are up to date or on track with immunizations. At enrollment, only 23% were up to date or on track.

  • Emergency Room for Children with Asthma: 28 visits → 5 visits

We served 171 asthmatic children in the 2008-2009 program year. These children had an 82% reduction in emergency room use in the first 12 months of CHIP service (reduced from 28 to 5 visits), compared to their ER visits during the 12 months prior to enrollment.

 
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