Our Vision
That all children in the communities we serve are able to reach their maximum health potential.
Our Work
Supporting Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
We are the sole fundraising entity for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and the child health programs at Stanford University School of Medicine. Join us in supporting care, comfort, and cures.
Promoting a system that works for children with special health care needs
Through grantmaking, advocacy and communications we promote a system of care that improves outcomes for children with special health care needs and enhances the lives of their families.
Providing data about children's health and well-being
Kidsdata.org is your gateway to comprehensive information about the health and well-being of children in communities across California. This easy-to-use web tool offers data on more than 500 measures, from asthma to vaccinations.
Our Blogs
Tad and Dianne Taube Commit $20 Million to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
New hospital’s south pavilion named in honor of the prominent Bay Area philanthropists Tad and Dianne Taube have committed $20 million to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to support the opening of the new Main building, which welcomed its first patients last December. The newly renamed...-
Building Systems that Work for Children with Complex Health Care Needs: The Next Steps
See more stories from the LPFCH.org blogThe health and well-being of our most vulnerable of children, especially developing children and children with complex health care needs, are sentinel indicators of the effectiveness of the systems on which they depend. The latest issue of the Pediatrics supplement: “Building Systems that Work for Children with Complex Health Care Needs,” sponsored by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, helps to clarify some of the difficult, systemic issues and challenges affecting health care for these children, and point the way toward their resolution.
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Updated Data Show Over A Quarter Million Public School Students Homeless
Homeless Public School Students, 2015-2016 Data on homeless children and youth in California are now available on Kidsdata. Over a quarter million, or 4.4% of public school students, were recorded as homeless at some point during the 2015-2016 school year. Most homeless students stayed with friends or relatives because of loss of housing (85%), and […]