Welcome to our website! Our mission is: Fostering ingenuity, inspiring change, and cultivating generations of healthy, happy kids. Check out our projects, events, blog posts, join our newsletter, and most of all– get involved! All of West Virginia’s kids deserve a safe and happy childhood. Help us help them aspire to do great things.
We're working on a ground-up, grassroots approach to learning and collaborating with communities to ensure kids' needs are prioritized.
We're assessing and raising awareness of ways we can improve the navigational paths families travel to finding comprehensive care.
We're collaborating with stakeholders from both system to study and recommend policy solutions to bridging these systems, for the health of all West Virginians.
How are county school systems around our state providing safe, supportive school for their most vulnerable students? We're working to find out.
We're part of a team that seeks to elevate community voices and make the priorities of communities the primary goal of local health system transformation efforts.
We're working with partners across the state to encourage eligible kids/families enroll in Medicaid and CHIP.
Left to Right: Lauren Gould, Caroline Lego, Lia Schaarschmidt, Bethany Welch My name is Caroline Lego, and my group members— Lauren Gould, Bethany Welch, and Lia Schaarschmidt— and I had the incredible opportunity to work Read more…
by Caity Coyne Whether intentional or not, federal policies expanded in 2021 to help families struggling through the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic seem to have provided evidence of a useful strategy for lifting Read more…
By Erin Beck, writing for the “When All Are Counted” Project Last week, I was sitting in a meeting of West Virginia lawmakers who were talking about a survey of how prepared schools are for Read more…
by DJ Conley, RN It is no secret that Southern West Virginia has its struggles with health. With rates of obesity, food disparity, and inactivity at an all-time high, it seems that the Sword of Read more…
by Erin Beck West Virginia lawmakers, who are seeking records related to the abuse of patients with disabilities in state officials’ care, found it troubling Sunday that those allegations were left out of an evaluation Read more…
By Crystal Good, writing for the “When All Are Counted” project. I was 20 years old when I gave birth to my first child. I had an episiotomy, an epidural, and a creepy white male Read more…
