Kids These Days
People say kids these days have so much more than past generations. Smartphones, video games, treats and busy schedules. But more isn’t always better. Because kids these days also have more health issues than ever before. More mental health issues, like struggles with depression. More need for life-saving surgeries. More time spent waiting in the emergency department. And more complex care needs, with many children facing lifelong illnesses, to name a few. Kids these days need our help—and yours—more than ever.
That’s why CHEO has a plan to transform health care for kids today and tomorrow. And CHEO Foundation needs partners like you to make a real impact. Join our biggest fundraising campaign ever to transform pediatric care.
Help us address the mental health crisis so kids have access to the support they desperately need.
Together, we can design a new way to support and care for kids living with complex care needs.
By enhancing diagnostic tools and research, you help us give kids a brighter future.
Improve access to emergency care so that kids have the care they need when they need it most.
Help us improve medical and surgical outcomes through better research, modernized spaces and the latest technology integration.
Times have changed for kids’ health and it’s increasingly clear that how we care for children needs to change, too. As the leading pediatric centre in Canada’s capital, serving over half a million patients a year from as far north as Nunavut, CHEO has seen these changes first-hand and knows what needs to be done to help address them.
Since the moment the hospital opened its doors in 1974, CHEO has led the charge in improving the lives of children and youth. Today, we embark on our most transformational journey yet to build and adapt so we can deploy more innovation, programs and services that meet the growing needs of kids today and tomorrow. Whether we are building better spaces or leveraging the power of data and artificial intelligence to solve persistent health care issues, we do so with a single goal in mind: helping children and youth live their best lives.
Over the next 10 years, CHEO will remodel, reimagine, and build to adapt to the changing needs of children today and tomorrow. This is our most ambitious plan ever. To make this possible, the CHEO Foundation is launching a $220 million fundraising campaign. Join us—because kids these days could really use your help.
