The Connor Group Kids and Community Foundation
For more than 25 years, The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners has been dedicated to making a significant, long-term impact on the lives of kids in our region. The mission has inspired their commitment to help Dayton Children’s provide the highest level of pediatric care for generations to come and we are honored to partner with them.
When Dayton Children’s launched a historic building project in 2014, The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners recognized the importance of having a world-class space for physicians to care for children well into the future and made a $1 million commitment in 2016 to the project. Through this commitment they inspired others in the Dayton community to participate by issuing a challenge that they would match every gift pledged to the Patient Tower campaign up to $1 million. The “Connor Challenge” resulted in $2.8 million in support and helped launch the campaign past the finish line.
Dayton Children’s is proud to recognize their generosity and leadership in the Connor-Dole Family Lounge in the Mills Family Cancer & Blood Disorder Center. This space allows families to gather outside of patient rooms to celebrate birthdays, holidays and connect with other cancer and blood disorder families and is an important part of creating a healing environment.
In 2020, The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners recognized that mental health is the number one health concern facing our youth and has again partnered with Dayton Children’s to open The Connor Child Health Pavilion, a first-of-its-kind medical center that addresses the mental health of children with a robust system of care that increases access to vital mental health services and prevention programs for our children. Through a $5 million investment, one of the largest philanthropic commitments to Dayton Children’s, The Connor Child Health Pavilion is the first program in the country that fully integrates mental health and community-based services into the primary care setting to address the both the clinical and nonclinical factors that impact a child’s health. Building this pediatric mental health care center of excellence will transform the delivery of pediatric mental health care to help our most vulnerable children live as healthy as possible today and into the future.
Through The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners’ investment and partnership, we are reinventing the path to optimal health for our children.