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.
When her 14-year-old daughter needed emergency mental health services last year, Amy Jo Hutchison went to the emergency room in Wheeling. Her daughter was struggling with suicide ideation, an ongoing issue that had become worse Read more…
I spend a lot of time looking for data. Specifically, I look for West Virginia kids’ health and well-being data. I look for who is collecting it, reporting it, and how they’re sharing it. I look Read more…
I was with Caroline the other day when we encountered an unsheltered person. It was upsetting to her and she had a lot of questions that I answered honestly. We had nothing on us that could be of any help, but Caroline noticed that the woman was very sunburned. We were on our way to a friend’s pool and had sunscreen, so we handed that over to her. The woman was delighted.
When I talk to people about food insecurity in their communities, there’s always a need for “more.” More money, more transportation, more volunteers, more fresh food, more organizing, more communication. While hundreds of West Virginians Read more…
The West Virginia Poison Center is reporting an increase in intentional self-poisoning among adolescents, particularly among 15-year-olds— an upward trend that has been largely uninterrupted for over seven years, despite a nearly six percent drop in the Read more…
Last week, I received a text from a friend asking me to keep an eye out at stores for baby formula. I don’t have children, but their daughter – a 6-month-old whom I adore – Read more…
