San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has granted
Barbara Sinatra Children's Center $500,000 to provide additional medical exams to
children and babies suspected of sexual or physical abuse
RANCHO
MIRAGE, Calif., May 13, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center received a
$500,000 grant from the San Manuel
Band of Mission Indians to expand the Center's forensic medical
services, in partnership with Loma Linda
University Children's Hospital.
The money from this grant will be used at the Barbara Sinatra
Children's Center to increase the number of services for children
and adolescents in need of forensic medical examination due to
suspected sexual or physical abuse. In addition to these exams, the
grant will also allow the Center to complete follow-up medical
exams with child abuse victims and conduct mandated foster care
medical exams with the help of pediatricians, pediatric nurse
practitioners and pediatric fellows from Loma
Linda University Children's Hospital.
"At the Center, we are dedicated to ensuring the safety and
security of children around the world, and providing proper
forensic services here in the Coachella Valley is a crucial part of
that mission," said Executive Officer at Barbara Sinatra Children's
Center, John Thoresen. "We are
honored and so grateful to be partnering with San Manuel Band of
Mission Indians and Loma Linda
University Children's Hospital to increase the level of care
we are able to provide to our patients."
The Tribe has a shared mission to enhance the health of children
in the Southern California region
and has a longstanding relationship with Loma
Linda University Hospital. San Manuel Band of Mission
Indians will now extend that same support and generosity to the
Barbara Sinatra Children's Center and leverage its partnership with
Loma Linda University Hospital to help
bring more services and support to children in need.
This grant from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is only
the start of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center furthering its
care and support of child abuse victims. Over the next 18 to 24
months, the Center will be raising additional funds to build a new
wing to increase its forensic treatment capabilities and volume of
children it can treat.
"Loma Linda University Children's
Hospital is enthusiastic about partnering with the Barbara Sinatra
Children's Center and helping furthering its mission. Our pediatric
staff is eager to care for these young patients. We cannot thank
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians enough for granting us the
resources to make this possible," said Amy
Young, MD Loma Linda University
Children's Hospital and the new BSCC Medical Director.
About the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center: Founded
in 1986 by Barbara and Frank
Sinatra, the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center is dedicated
to ensuring every child's right to a normal, healthy and secure
childhood. Since its creation, about 25,000 children have received
outpatient mental health and counseling services at the Center. The
Center provides individual, group, and family therapy and special
programs that address issues associated with children suffering the
effects of child abuse and neglect. An estimated 700 children are
counseled annually on an outpatient basis, and no child is ever
turned away because of a family's inability to pay. For more
information, visit BarbaraSinatraChildrensCenter.org. An animated
video series, funded by the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center
Foundation, has reached over 200 million children worldwide and
generated over 70 million individual and group viewings on YouTube
throughout the United States and
abroad, with India as the second
largest user behind the U.S. For more information and resources,
visit FightChildAbuse.Org and view the Protect Yourself Rules and
Teen Series Videos at
https://www.youtube.com/@fightchildabuse1913/videos
About the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians: The San
Manuel Band of Mission Indians is a federally-recognized Indian
tribe located on the San Manuel Indian Reservation near
Highland, California. San Manuel
exercises its inherent sovereign right of self-governance and
provides essential services for its citizens by building
infrastructure, maintaining civil services, and promoting social,
economic and cultural development. As the Indigenous people of the
San Bernardino highlands, passes,
valleys, mountains and high deserts, the Serrano people of San
Manuel have called this area home since time immemorial and are
committed to remaining a productive partner in the San Bernardino region. For more information,
visit http://www.sanmanuel-nsn.gov.
About Loma Linda University
Children's Hospital: The Children's Hospital is the only
dedicated pediatric hospital in the vast geographic region of
San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo and Mono
counties. With 348 beds dedicated just for kids, one of the largest
Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the country and more than 100,000
children who come each year, LLUCH is a major pediatric teaching
facility, known worldwide as the pioneer of neonatal heart
transplantation. LLUCH is part of Loma Linda
University Health – the umbrella organization encompassing
Loma Linda University's eight
professional schools, Loma Linda
University Medical Center's six hospitals and more than
1,000 faculty physicians located across the Inland Empire in
Southern California. A Seventh-day
Adventist organization, Loma Linda
University Health is a faith-based health system with a
mission "to continue the teaching and healing ministry of
Jesus Christ."
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