Orange, Calif.-based Rady Children’s Health received a $10 million gift from Cari Peets and her family to expand its Resilience Program, which provides care for children who have experienced abuse or neglect.
Four things to know:
1. The gift names the Mrs. Cari Peets and Family Resilience Clinic, which opened in October, according to a Nov. 9 health system news release. The clinic combines medical care, mental health services, social work, care coordination and caregiver support.
2. The clinic provides health assessments, medical evaluations, behavioral health services and ongoing preventive and acute care. Its multidisciplinary team includes pediatricians, a child psychologist, a social worker and two care managers. The clinic also plans to add a foster parent coach and child life specialist.
3. The donation also establishes the Mrs. Cari Peets and Family Chair in Childhood Resilience, the health system’s third endowed chair. Charles Golden, MD, vice president and assistant chief medical officer at Rady Children’s, will serve as the inaugural chairholder. The endowment will fund the Resilience Program in perpetuity.
4. The Peets family’s total philanthropic contributions to Rady Children’s now exceed $11 million.
