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Uniting the Community to Protect & Improve
Children's Health
Since 1993, our network of professionals and advocates have collaborated to ensure a safe, healthy future for kids in Hampton Roads, VA, and beyond.
Get involved with CINCH
Together we make an impact on kids’ health!
425+
partners — and growing!
CINCH’s strength as a coalition has always been in our many partners who contribute both as individuals and as representatives of other organization to help plan, implement and participate in our work and projects.
$6
million in grants
Since 1993, CINCH has worked to bring grant funding into our communities to support a variety of projects impacting children’s health, including projects impacting policy, health behaviors and health equity.
17%
increase in immunizations
CINCH began our work as a CDC demonstration project to raise immunization rates, and successfully raised rates in our area by 17% between 1993 and 1996.
Because every child has the right to good health
Early childhood is a critical stage of physical, mental, and emotional development — and too many families lack access to support and resources to help them raise happy, healthy kids.
CINCH is here to change that!
We believe that all children have the right to health and safety, no matter who they are, where they live, or what their home situation looks like.
And for 30 years, we’ve brought together the Hampton Roads community to directly speak to the needs of local families. If you have kids, care about kids, or care about our greater community, then you have a place at CINCH.
We listen to community voices & collaborate to make change
With hundreds of members and partners, CINCH draws from a wide range of professional backgrounds, trainings, and lived experiences.
Together with community members, we seek to provide evidence-based infant, child, and maternal health support.
We focus on root causes to eliminate health disparities and ensure more equitable access for all families in the Hampton Roads area.
Won’t you join us and be part of the solution?
CINCH focuses on taking action on priority issues identified by our community, including…
- Advancing black maternal health equity
- Promoting breastfeeding
- Supporting action to end community violence
- Improving asthma management
- Teaching preschoolers skills for emotional and social wellbeing
- Helping families make changes for healthier eating and activity
- Taking action to prevent and treat teen substance use
- Addressing teen mental health needs
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