Community Outreach
Community Outreach at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC promotes the health and well-being of children and communities – from providing early literacy support to helping a father find a home for his family. Our outreach services span the region and include a special partnership with a health care facility in Africa.
Child
Advocacy Center
Children’s Child Advocacy Center provides
services to protect children and strengthen families. The focus of the center
is to recognize and document child abuse, while remaining a child friendly and
family-friendly resource. The staff is focused on serving as all-encompassing
advocates of child safety, health and well-being. The center provides comprehensive
forensic evaluations as well as medical and psychosocial services for children
and adolescents who may be victims of physical or sexual abuse or neglect. The
center also offers comprehensive medical care and case management for children
who are in foster care, kinship care or who have been in the foster care system
and have been reunited with their biological parents. Learn
more.
Community Education Program
Community
education classes are held throughout the Pittsburgh area to educate parents and
their children about pediatric health concerns, injury prevention, child development
issues and parenting. Classes are offered at Children’s neighborhood locations
in Wexford, Bethel Park and Monroeville, and at Family Care Connection Centers.
Learn
more.
Family Care Connection Centers
Children’s Family Care Connection Centers offer a wide range of support services
for at-risk families to ensure that parents and children receive the social services
and support they need in developing healthy lifestyles and in securing access
to health care. Centers are located in Braddock, Lawrenceville, Mt. Oliver, Oakland, Rankin,
Turtle Creek and Wilkinsburg. Learn
more.
PPG Healthy Stories Program
In
partnership with PPG Industries Foundation and other local donors, Children’s
PPG Healthy Stories Program fosters healthy language development and literacy
by providing books and encouraging storytelling and listening skills. This year-round
program teaches children to read, distributes gift book packets and encourages
storytelling through workshops for parents and caregivers. Learn
more.
Injury Prevention
The vision
of Children’s Injury Prevention Program is to reduce the occurrence, severity
and consequences of injuries and accidents for children and to provide education,
research and advocacy for safer communities. Learn
more at Children’s award-winning Injury
Prevention Web site.
Kisumu Urban Apostolate
Programes – Pandipieri
Children’s farthest outreach effort,
Kisumu Urban Apostolate Programes – Pandipieri, is located in Africa in the
poorest area of Kisumu, Kenya. Children’s provides health care services as
well as education and training for the Center’s staff. Programs and services
include HIV/AIDS counseling and education, a street children’s rehabilitation
program, nutrition clinic, schools, support groups and employment opportunities.
Learn more.
Ronald McDonald
Care Mobile
A doctor’s office on wheels, the Ronald McDonald House
Charities/Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Care Mobile brings pediatric
primary care and health education to medically underserved neighborhoods. The
Care Mobile travels to local schools to offer primary care services at no charge
to the students. Learn more.
