Employee Connections and Health Equity

At Cook Children's, we believe in prioritizing strong employee connections by fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and can thrive. We strive to create strong employee connections by celebrating the unique qualities that each person brings to our team. We are committed to ensuring that all employees have equal opportunities to succeed and contribute their best to our mission of improving the lives of every child.

Health Equity

Every child deserves the best quality of life and opportunities for a bright future. We realize there are many societal factors that impact a child’s physical and mental health and overall well-being. Sometimes families face barriers or disparities.

Cook Children's Health Equity initiatives connect employees and families to work together to eliminate as many barriers and health disparities as possible. Through work such as new staff education, resources to find community help, increasing access to mental health care, as well as language services, we help families from all walks of life find comfort and support at Cook Children’s. Driven by our Promise, which is the guiding principle for Cook Children's, we are committed to equitable health care and supporting healthy communities for all children.

Center for Community Health

The Center for Community Health focuses on community health outreach and research programs designed to make our North Texas region one of the healthiest places to raise a child across all communities regardless of socioeconomic status.

Neighborhood Clinics

We believe that all children deserve access to the best pediatric health care possible. Our community-based neighborhood clinics are staffed by board-certified pediatricians and provide low-income families with well-child and sick visits, vaccines, behavioral health and supportive resources from birth through adolescence.

Affordable care

No child should have to go without quality health care. Cook Children's Health Plan provides low-cost or no-cost health insurance to more than 110,000 low-income families through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). We also help families find financial assistance, and resources to provide the support they need.

Advocacy

Children are a very big part of our world. But when it comes to their health, they have very small voices. For this reason, it's our responsibility to speak up for those who can't speak for themselves.

Adverse childhood experiences

Ensuring that families with adversity live in supportive communities and in the presence of nurturing, protective caregivers so children can build resilience and be protected from the negative impacts of adversity.

Mental health

Recognizing the need for mental health for children and teens, Cook Children's helped establish the Mental Health Connection (MHC) to find gaps in health services in our community and to help fill those gaps with better mental health services in for children in our communities.