The Children’s
Health Fund founded by the visionary Irwin and Karen Redliner and now led by
Dennis Walto is one of the most inspiring organizations in the country,
providing access to quality health care to our most vulnerable children. In my
keynote to their annual conference in Washington yesterday, I shared five
strategies for them to adopt in making America stronger child by child. They
included:
- Reinforcing
the connection between child hunger and child health and mobilizing to oppose cuts
to SNAP and other vital child nutrition programs
- Recognizing
that child hunger and child health are among our most solvable problems in a nation
that has no shortage of food or medicine
- Remember
that children are not only vulnerable but voiceless and need us to be their
voice in policy and politics
- Supporting
children to lead as we are seeing thousands do on sensible gun safety in the
wake of the Parkland, FL tragedy
- Being
cathedral builders who may work on something their whole lives without seeing
it finished but who are part of something larger than themselves and building
something that will endure.
Every time a school serves lunch or breakfast
to a kid who can’t afford it, every step that makes health care more
accessible, every improvement in our schools, makes Americas stronger child by
child.
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