The holiday countdown continues with our blog series – Four days until July 4th weekend! Today we’d like to introduce you to HealthNet’s School-Based Services. ————————————————————– World – Meet School-Based Services! It’s a fact. Kids are more likely to learn and do better in school when they are healthy and attend class regularly. Yet [...]
4 Days until July 4th Weekend: PART TWO – Better Indy Babies & Healthy Families
In the second part of our ‘4 Days until July 4th Weekend’ blog series, we would like to introduce you to another great outreach program. This program gets young people on the right track even before they enter this world… ——————————————————————– Meet – Better Indy Babies/Healthy Families Better Indy Babies (BIBs) is a free home [...]
4 days ’til July 4th Weekend: PART ONE – Homeless Initiative Program
Okay! So yes, we have been blogging for a while now, and I think the prim and proper way to say it would be that we started ‘circa January’. For half of the year now we have sprinkled our blog with a variety of stories, from our thoughts about foster children becoming homeless, to the [...]
Giving a Care about Indianapolis parents & children..
Our Better Indy Babies/Healthy Families (BIBS/HF) Programs celebrated the successes of many inner-city Indianapolis parents and children about a week an a half ago at their 11th Annual Family Picnic! Around 400 families were present at Garfield Park on the pretty steamy Friday. Lunch was provided for all. The day also included PLENTY of activities [...]
Give a Care about Indy’s Far Eastside!
In Indy, we take pride in our neighborhoods. From Martindale-Brightwood to Downtown, Fountain Square to Brookside or Broad Ripple, we appreciate the personality and flavor of each small community. Well, we JUST became a Far Eastside neighbor!! At HealthNet, we’ve been deeply invested in our neighborhoods for more than 40 years. In fact, many of [...]
50 Million Americans uninsured, Health Center access is needed
Originally posted in December of last year, I thought this blog post was useful as a refresher for everyone who continues to advocate for HealthNet and other Federally Qualified Health Centers. It is also useful for those who are new to the blog and may still be wondering exactly what the benefits of FQHCs really [...]
Kids not being able to get the shots needed for school
The article “No low-cost vaccinations for insured children, state says” was featured on IndyStar.com, yesterday. (Read the entire article here.) The article written reports that a new Indiana State Department of Health policy goes into effect starting July 1st that will no longer allow county health departments to provide low-cost immunizations to children who have [...]
CALL TO ACTION!! Time to talk to our Senators!
Almost a month ago, we asked you to contact your U.S. Representative to submit a programmatic request supporting the Community Health Centers Program. Today, we’re in the midst of the same process, only we are switching to the other side of Capitol Hill. The deadline for SENATORS to submit a programmatic request is THIS FRIDAY, [...]
Dishing up healthier meals after the Pyramid is gone!
Trying to eat healthier this year? Let’s face it. Every choice we make at the dinner table, grocery store aisle or fast food line adds up – especially when we step on the scale. Here’s a new tool to help guide what goes on your plate. Today, the Obama administration is tossing out the old [...]
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