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Our mission is to help the most vulnerable youth achieve stability in their physical and mental health by supporting the innovative programs and services of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
CHLA honors DAM with its Humanism Award
The Division of Adolescent Medicine (DAM) is the recipient of the 2012 Morris and Mary Press CHLA Humanism Award.
Rich Cordova, President & CEO of CHLA, presents the award to Dr. Marvin Belzer, Head of the Division of Adolescent Medicine
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) places a high priority on reaching out to the community and meeting clients where they are by providing off-site clinics and programs in partnership with community organizations. The DAM has been doing just that for many years.
From the ceremony:
The Division of Adolescent Medicine has a keen understanding that the teens they serve may never enter the doors of our main campus due to the circumstances in their lives. They know that in order to provide medical care to these under-served adolescents, they need to come to them, and they do. Through the medical care offered in the homeless drop-in shelters, in the schools, in free clinics and in their mobile care team, they are the arms and legs of the hospital out in the community.
The award was presented to Dr. Marvin Belzer, Head of the Division (and Chair of The CHAMPION Fund) by Rich Cordova, President & CEO of CHLA. We salute the work of the DAM and commit to fulfill our mission of supporting its innovative programs.
Our partnership with The sCare Foundation
We are proud to announce our partnership with The sCare Foundation, a non-profit organization made up of suspense and horror genre luminaries working toward alleviating the hardships of poverty and homelessness facing today’s youth throughout North America. Its name is an acronym from “Suspense Community Allocating Relief & Empowerment.”
It has chosen the Hollywood Homeless Youth Partnership (HHYP) as a beneficiary. On Sunday, October 30, 2011, they presented The CHAMPION Fundwith a check for $10,000 at their first gala event, held at The Conga Room at L.A. Live.
The CHAMPION Fund helped to establish HHYP in 1982, as a partnership of youth-serving agencies that prevent and reduce homelessness among youth and young adults through direct service, research, policy development and training & capacity building.
HHYP’s member organizations are Angel’s Flight, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Covenant House, Hollywood Arts, the LA Gay & Lesbian Center, the Los Angeles Youth Network, My Friend’s Place, The Saban Free Clinic, and The Way In/Salvation Army. Learn more at www.HHYP.org
Angels of Change celebrates transgender youth
Our Angels of Change event celebrates the journeys of our transgender youth who are transitioning into adulthood with confidence and pride.
On October 8, 2011, we hosted our Angels of Change fundraiser. The event launched the 2011 Angels of Change calendar, which features twelve of the young people in our Transgender Youth Program.
The Division of Adolescent Medicine has provided healthcare and supportive services specifically designed for transgender youth since 1996. Specialized services consists of a team of physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, case managers and health educators who provide a complete range of series for young people struggling with gender non-conformity. Traditionally, we served youth ages 12-24, but in 2010 the clinic was expanded to provide services for gender-variant children, as well.
Since 2008, we have produced this calendar and a launch event with the goals engaging transgender youth as role models and creating positive community visibility of transgender-identified youth. Learn more and purchase the calendar at www.AngelsOfChange.net
Celebrating one of our first Champions… Gary Yates
On May 21, 2001, we held reception & dinner to celebrate the career of Gary Yates, who served for a decade as Associate Director of The Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles before going to The California Wellness Fund (TCWF) in 1992. He planted many of the seeds which have grown to fruition over the past twenty years, including our NATEEN program for pregnant and parenting teens and prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in the adolescent population.
On the occasion of Gary retiring as CEO & President of TCWF, we convened over two hundred of his colleagues from across the state, Executive Directors and Board members of the many organizations he has guided along their paths to success over the years. We presented Gary with a book made up of tributes from these leaders of non-profit organizations serving the health needs of young people and their communities across California.
We raised over $40,000 through this event to support the programs at the Division of Adolescent Medicine that Gary has worked to hard to safeguard. You can learn more about the event 
HERE and read the TABLE OF CONTENTS of the Yates Tribute Book.