UnitedHealthcare Provides $275,000 to Three North Carolina Nonprofits to Improve Health Outcomes for Children
04 Maio 2023 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Funds will advance stability and provide
critical resources for children in kinship and foster care across
North Carolina
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of North Carolina has announced
$275,000 in grant funding to three local organizations supporting
children in kinship and foster care across the state.
“Caring for the most vulnerable members of our community starts
with meeting their most basic needs, and we are dedicated to
supporting the children of North Carolina who face elevated
challenges each day,” said Anita Bachmann, CEO, UnitedHealthcare
Community Plan of North Carolina. “We’re honored to collaborate
with these nonprofits in their efforts to keep kids healthy and in
caring homes.”
Grant funds will help Methodist Home for Children, Boys &
Girls Home of North Carolina, and Foster Family Alliance of North
Carolina to expand or introduce new offerings for foster families
as well as kinship families, defined as a family friend or relative
who has assumed the role of primary caregiver for a child. Grants
include:
- $125,000 to Methodist Home for Children to enhance programs
that stabilize placements with families for children with dual
diagnoses.
- $75,000 to Boys & Girls Home of North Carolina to increase
preventive and aftercare services for families and support kinship
placements.
- $75,000 to Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina to increase
support groups, kinship navigation and resources for kinship
families.
“Kinship families deserve to be supported in their child welfare
journey, just as foster parents are,” said Gaile Osborne, executive
director, Foster Family Alliance. “Collaboration with
UnitedHealthcare has allowed our organization to increase capacity
across the state to help kinship families navigate physical and
mental health services.”
The support from UnitedHealthcare will further each
organization’s efforts to foster stability and permanency for
children, increase access to care and build healthier communities
across North Carolina.
“UnitedHealthcare’s generous grant will provide much needed
support to our ongoing efforts to stabilize struggling families in
North Carolina,” said Marc Murphy, CEO, Boys & Girls Home.
“Children in foster care often come to us having experienced trauma
and behind their peers in so many key developmental areas. This
collaboration will enable our staff to expand services to improve
health outcomes for more children and families in our area.”
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children in
foster care face increased barriers to health care, and 1 in 3
children enter foster care with a chronic medical condition.
Additionally, 60% of children in foster care under 5 years old have
developmental health issues, and more than 40% of school-age
children face educational challenges.
“At Methodist Home for Children, we believe every child deserves
a chance – and that includes the historically underserved
population of children dually diagnosed with a developmental
disability and mental health disorder,” said Bruce Stanley, CEO and
president, Methodist Home for Children. “The generous support of
UnitedHealthcare builds our capacity to equip dually diagnosed
children to successfully re-integrate to their homes and school
communities – and to live their lives as productively and
independently as possible.”
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 1.7 million members enrolled
in Medicaid, employer-sponsored, individual and Medicare and
retirement plans in North Carolina, with a network of 141
hospitals, and over 60,000 physicians and other care providers
statewide.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people live healthier
lives and making the health system work better for everyone by
simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care
providers. In the United States, UnitedHealthcare offers the full
spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, and
Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with
more than 1.5 million physicians and care professionals, and 7,000
hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. The company also
provides health benefits and delivers care to people through owned
and operated health care facilities in South America.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group
(NYSE: UNH), a diversified health care company. For more
information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow
@UHC on Twitter.
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