post by Laura Jay- Ballinger. Click here to meet our entire staff blog team! The behavioral health department is invested in our community kiddos! The therapists in each facility provide services for children as well as adults. We are very fortunate to have Dr. Jim Jones, child psychologist, at PACC and the department is in [...]
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WE CARE ABOUT KIDS – The Mantra of our BIBs/Healthy Families Program
post written by Denise Kaspar, Director of BIBs/Healthy Families. You can check out the rest of our blogging team here. The Better Indy Babies and Healthy Families’ mantra should be We Care About Kids. Over 1500 kids, both born and unborn, hold a place in the hearts of the more than 50 home visitors and [...]
OUR HEALTHNET.
post written by Benita Mullins. Meet the rest of our staff blog team by clicking here! “Our” HealthNet is right! They have become such a big part of our lives, our families, and our community. HealthNet is growing and changing (for the better) in the most conventional ways but keeping with the same timeless values. [...]
#YOUTUBE WEEK: Our 3-Part Conversation with Better Indy Babies Home Visitors!
Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. You can learn more about our Better Indy Babies & Healthy Families Programs here, or you can stay up to date by signing up for our monthly eNewsletter to get updates on events and ongoings!
Once Upon a Healty Baby… a success
While we don’t yet have the final tally on the amount raised or an exact count of donated items from the Once Upon a Child stores for our Better Indy Babies program, it is still safe to say that last Saturday’s Once Upon a Healthy Baby event was successful. These are just a few images from ONE of [...]
Shop for a Good Cause in Indy this Weekend!
It’s not every day that you can help someone in need just by shopping for a good deal. Saturday’s sale event at six Once Upon A Child stores in Indy will offer savvy shoppers BIG bargains on gently used infant and children’s clothing as well as other “kid gear.” And, a portion of the day’s [...]
Once Upon a Healthy Baby [Video]
This Saturday at various Once Upon a Child locations in Indianapolis and Carmel, proceeds from their ALL DAY CLEARANCE SALE will go toward Better Indy Babies! A home-visitation program that helps promote healthier pregnancies in order to have healthier babies and combat Indiana’s low rank – 39th out of 50 – in infant mortality rate! [...]
How home visitation program can help the age group with the highest rate of victimization and maltreatment
A report done by the National Center for Children in Poverty showed the factors that increase the risk of infant maltreatment. These factors are: smoking during pregnancy infant having two or more siblings Medicaid enrollee unmarried infant low-birth weight less than high school education teen mother short spacing (under 15 months) between pregnancy poor pre-natal [...]
Most children today will not know who Martin Luther King Jr. was…..
until they are in 4th or 5th grade. This is a total assumption, but I think it may be a pretty well-grounded one. Unless parents today take time out to sit their child down and explain who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, most children probably won’t know until they bring it up in school. [...]
How Well Do You Know Your Child? Take the Quiz!
Do you know your children? Really know them? As parents, we sometimes are so busy taking care of our children that we lose track of some of the details of their lives. Take 5 minutes and test yourself with this 16-question quiz recommended by our Better Indy Babies and Healthy Families staff. It will help [...]
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