Mental Health: Lighting the Way Campaign Builds on Success

CHKD established the Lighting the Way campaign to support our efforts to address the shortage of mental health services for children in our region and beyond. The centerpiece of this initiative is our new Children’s Pavilion, a 14-story tower on our main campus in Norfolk where exceptionally talented clinicians, researchers, and medical educators from across the U.S. are joining the CHKD team to provide desperately needed mental health inpatient, outpatient, and partial hospitalization services.

The generous response of our community to this need has been remarkable. We have exceeded our initial goal to raise $60 million in support of this initiative; however, with the mental health needs of our children escalating at an alarming rate, we have decided to push past this target to establish a new goal of $75 million to provide more of the services needed to tackle the ever-growing crisis affecting our youth.

Our new facility will begin a phased opening in the coming months with the launch of outpatient services in mental health and the opening of General Academic Pediatrics and a sports medicine clinic. The opening of inpatient mental health services will begin in fall of 2022 and continue in phases through 2023.

Please join us in lighting the way to a brighter future for all children by making a gift to our mental health campaign. A donation envelope is enclosed in this magazine, or you may give online by scanning this QR code or visiting CHKD.org/LightingTheWay.