Children are our most precious resource. We need to continue to advocate for the most vulnerable children to make sure that kids live in healthy communities where they live, learn and play.
DC4KIDS
Making a Difference
Football gives me the opportunity to have a platform in which I can speak on so many levels to many different people.
Through my work with Fellowship of Christian Athletes, I have had the ability to speak to youth about Jesus Christ and what it means to be a Christian.
Throughout my college career I had the privileged opportunity to speak at schools, visit hospitals, and participate with my local FCA organization.
Now that I’m playing in the NFL, I’m excited to continue giving back to that community. My goal is to reach out to local youth to spread the message of Christ, and inspire and challenge them to become better individuals. I also have a huge heart for children’s hospitals around the U.S. My son spent his first 23 days in Valley Children’s Hospital where they provided him with exceptional care and were so good to my family. Giving back to children’s hospitals around America is very near and dear to my heart.
Valley Children’s Healthcare
Valley Children’s Healthcare – one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation – provides Central California’s only high-quality, comprehensive care exclusively for children, from before birth to young adulthood. Our network offers highly specialized medical and surgical services to care for children with conditions ranging from common to the highly complex at its 330-bed stand-alone children’s hospital or in one of their three neonatal units (28 beds) located across the Valley. In addition, the Valley Children’s Healthcare network includes specialty care centers, pediatric primary care practices, urgent care center and women’s health services.
Our family-centered, pediatric services extend from a leading pediatric cancer and blood diseases center on the West Coast, and a pediatric heart center known for its expertise and pioneering treatments, to a Regional Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the highest-level referral center between Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Valley Children’s was the first children’s hospital west of the Rockies to receive Magnet Nursing designation, the highest nursing benchmark in the world. In 2020, U.S. News and World Report named Valley Children’s one of the best children’s hospitals in the country in seven pediatric specialties. With more than 640 physicians and 3,500 staff, Valley Children’s delivers high-quality, comprehensive care to more than 1.3 million from Kern County to the Capital and from the Central Coast to the Sierra.
For more information, please visit www.valleychildrens.org