Children’s & Women’s Health

Imagining a future with limitless potential is critical to the health and development of all individuals.

LSPFF supports science-based, scalable systems-change initiatives that address the needs of children, teens, young adults and women in our diverse society. We look for quantitatively modeled and proven interventions that disrupt inequitable social determinants of health. We focus on health equity solutions that address multi-generational trauma and toxic stress in the most marginalized communities. Elevating social entrepreneurs as they establish field leadership is important to LSPFF, and we especially seek experts who represent the diverse experiences of communities served.

Spotlight: Children’s & Women’s Health

CPMC’s Kalmanovitz Child Development Center

For more than 50 years, CPMC’s Kalmanovitz Child Development Center (KCDC) has provided world-class, comprehensive care for children in need of specialized mental health, behavioral, and developmental therapies. The KCDC Child Psychology Post-Doctoral Program greatly expands access for children and adolescents in San Francisco to receive urgently needed behavioral health care now, regardless of their family’s insurance status or ability to pay.

Spotlight: Children’s & Women’s Health

Resilient Teens & Black Baby Equity Project

Dr. Dayna Long is the Director of Community Health and Engagement at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Dr. Long’s research and advocacy examines how to make communities healthier, eliminating inequities that contribute to poor health outcomes for young children and families, by focusing on prevention and reducing the negative social determinants to poor health outcomes. Dr. Long is a pediatrician and co-founder of BLOOM: Black Baby Equity Clinic, launched to address health disparities and improve the overall health outcomes for Black children and families; she also founded the Resilient Teens program, which focuses on aiding teens in overcoming adversity and trauma.

Spotlight: Children’s & Women’s Health

UCSF Center for Health & Community, Dr. Nicole Bush

Dr. Nicole Bush’s research focuses on the role that early-life psychosocial environments play in the health and disease trajectories across the lifespan. Investigating the ways in which contextual experiences of adversity become biologically embedded, changing children’s developing physiologic systems and shaping the development and mental health in childhood and later life, allows us to imagine interventions that can ameliorate social determinants of health inequity. Dr. Bush’s leadership in the lab is leading to discoveries that are urgently needed in society.