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  To begin its work in 2001, the staff of the Endowment conducted interviews with more than 50 Wake County health providers and agency representatives on children's health issues of most concern in the community. The Comprehensive Child Health Plan report of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine that had recently been published in May 2000 ranked access to health insurance coverage among its highest priorities. The Task Force also recommended that every child have access to a familiar, reliable source of health care to serve as the first point of entry for access to preventive, primary, and specialized care. Children in poverty and children of the working poor are twice as likely to be uninsured and are five times more likely than insured children not to have a usual provider of healthcare. Uninsured children are also less likely to be up-to-date with well-child care, and to have had all recommended immunizations. Our conversations lead us to believe that increasing access to care was fundamental to improving children's health and a sound first step for the Endowment to take on behalf of low-income children in Wake County. The Endowment Board wanted to see what could be done about the barriers to health care faced by local children with Endowment support. And so the first grants from the John Rex Endowment have been designed to bridge the gaps to health care faced by children in our community.  The list of John Rex Endowment grantees are divided into two major categories, "Enrollment" and "Access." Visit the pages below to see the programs in each:
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