Home Carolinas Collaborative for Child Advocacy and Resident Education About the Carolinas Collaborative

Our Vision

We envision every child in North and South Carolina reaching their potential to thrive due to mitigated health inequities and the promotion of effective health strategies.

What is the Carolinas Collaborative

We are a coordinated pediatric health expert collaborative, providing an infrastructure of innovation, training, research and advocacy best practices, to drive scalable child public health solutions within the 8 pediatric residency academic regions in NC and SC.

The Carolinas Collaborative has 26 active members and 6 members at-large. It is co-led by two members, one from North Carolina and one from South Carolina. Our current leadership is Ellie Erickson, MD from Duke University and Blakely Amati, MD from Prisma Health Upstate. The Collaborative is served by Coordinator Jackie Young at Prisma Health Upstate. You can reach them by emailing here.

Who we work with

The Carolinas Collaborative recognizes that residency is a powerful time for future physicians. Across these programs, over 550 residents and fellows are trained each year. The clinics affiliated with these programs see over 150,000 visits per year.

The Collaborative works with all 8 pediatric residencies across the Carolinas: 3 in South Carolina, 5 in North Carolina.

(Member institutions are listed as: Pediatric Residency Program/Hospital – Medical School)                 

East Carolina University/Vidant Medical Center – Brody School of Medicine: Greenville, NC

Duke University/Duke Children’s – Duke University School of Medicine: Durham, NC

Medical University of South Carolina/Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital – Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine: Charleston, SC

Prisma Health Midlands/Prisma Health Children’s Hospital – University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia: Columbia, SC

Prisma Health Upstate/Prisma Health Children’s Hospital – University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville: Greenville, SC

Atrium Health/Levine Children’s – Wake Forest University School of Medicine: Charlotte, NC (Website)

Atrium Health Wake Forest/Brenner Children’s Hospital – Wake Forest University School of Medicine: Winston-Salem, NC

University of North Carolina/UNC Health Children’s – University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill, NC 

Our Supporters

The Carolinas Collaborative is grateful for the support and partnership of all 8 pediatric residency programs in our membership.

We are grateful to the American Academy of Pediatrics Community Pediatrics Training Initiative for the support and coaching to build this model.

Thank you to these supporters of our work:

2025-2027

2022-2024

2019-2022

2016-2019

The Institute for Child Success is proud to serve as the fiscal and administrative home for the Carolinas Collaborative.