CHOC is a children's hospital in Orange County, California whose mission is to nurture, advance and protect children's health and well-being. Their HELP ME GROW program connects children aged 0-5 with developmental services and identifies gaps in care. CHOC offers many specialty programs and services to meet community needs. They are committed to serving all children regardless of ability to pay. Through fundraising events and donations, CHOC is able to continue its work of saving children's lives and helping families cope with health issues.

1. CHOCChildren's Hospital of Orange CountyBy: Miriam Ochoa

2. Mission, Vision, and Values Mission: To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children. Vision: To achieve national recognition as a premier children's hospitalValues: CHOC values serving those in need and are dedicated to working cooperatively to assist and enrich existing services as well as developing programs to benefit the families of Orange County.

3. The Program and its Goal HELP ME GROW is a program currently funded by the Children and Families Commission of Orange County. This program has a toll free line as an access point for developmental services in Orange County.

4. Its main focuses are:

5. Connecting children birth through 5 years of age and their families that have concerns about their child’s learning, behavior or development with resources and supports in the community

6. Builds a network by developing positive relationships with community providers and maintaining an updated developmental/behavioral

7. Identifies gaps and barriers to children and families receiving services by conducting community outreach, care coordination and follow-up calls with families

8. Scaffolding is utilized to train the community, providers, residents and fellows on the use of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) and ASQ: Social Emotional Community NeedAt CHOC, they are committed to taking a leadership role in ensuring the health and well-being of children and their families living in Orange County. They offer award winning programs and services that promote health and well-being to children as they grow from birth through childhood and adolescence to adulthood.CHOC fits community needs due to the fact that it is not specialized on only one health problem and neither do they focus on only one type of program.

9. Continued Community Need CHOC considers the impact on others such as the patient and its family when doctors have to explicate their diagnosis and therefore, they try to explain or interpret the drawn inferences based on the interpretations on the series of studies done.

10. CHOC also has Pediatric Specialties, different units of health, patient and family support services, Children’s Specialty Centers, medical advice, and professional programs. These services rendered, are available to the community so that whenever needed the can depend on them.

11. CHOC’s providers must be careful with their information making sure that it is not fallacious but prior to providing the information they must do substantive research in order to synthesize the results.CHOC’s Appeal CHOC’s appeal is saving children's life's because CHOC puts children first. Not only do they focus on putting children first but their families as well. Providing treatments and necessities to children in everyday life is their priority because they want to see and hear how that child along with their families push away the struggle.

12. CHOC involved in CT, CR, and CA!!! This program promotes critical thinking in the sense that first try to assess the problem and analyze it. Then they follow any evidence to where it may lead so that they can finally make an evaluation. Critical reading is utilized because of all the reading and research that they have to do in order to come up with an evaluation. Finally, critical action is always applied here because whenever they find out something in the critical reading that they do they must test it out to see if their reasoning can lead to inductive reasoning. InputsIn order to maintain nourishment, advancement, and protective health, CHOC needs to:

13. To receive contributions by donations or recruiting people to organize fundraising events.

14. Volunteer work such as going to read stories, looking after patients that are in certain conditions, taking pets that are secure for children’s well-being.OutputsThey are there to serve any child whether they have the resources to pay the services rendered or not.

15. They never deny treatment due to the fact that they do not discriminate nor reject any child.

16. They have therapies or support services to help with different situations for both the child and their family.ProcessProvides orientations where testimonies are attained.