The holidays come with donation drives everywhere! Each drive is different…Whether it is an office chili cook-off, a coat drive, or a collection of monetary donations, it is exciting to so many creative groups helping out others during the holiday season. The IU Health Affinity groups had their own idea for a Holiday Helpings drive that, fortunately and gratefully, we [...]
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My Home is HealthNet
Post by Laurie Chavez For so many of our families, home is a variable concept. In other words, transience, insecurity, uncertainty and poverty often get in the way of the dream to have a physical grounding place to call their own. But, amazingly, each family I have served over the years has defined home in [...]
Kids Count 2012 – 2 Takeaways
The timing couldn’t be more perfect to wrap up our month-long focus on GIVE A CARE ABOUT KIDS! The just-released Kids Count Data Book, complied by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, reports that Indiana’s child poverty rate rose to 22 percent in 2010. Think about that: One in five children in our state is living [...]
Car Seat Clinic helps Burmese in the Barrington Neighborhood
On July 19, 2012, Better Indy Babies/Healthy Families held a car seat clinic at the Barrington Health & Dental Center (BHC) to distribute much needed infant car seats to some of our Burmese families. Over the past couple years, BHC has seen an influx of Burmese patients and we are grateful to have Swhe Bualteng [...]
Do you value the kids around you?
post written by Bhumi. To meet our entire staff blog team, click here. Kids are just the most adorable and naive little people!! We as adults see them as just that and tend to forget that they are also so in tune to what is going on around them. So, lets all take a minute [...]
Give a Care about Kids – A Behavioral Health’s Investment in Indianapolis’ Children
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Lot Going On and Not Enough Space to Write!
post by Willie Matis. Click here to find out more about ALL of our bloggers! It will be two years at HealthNet for me on July 6th! My how time flies. Since working here, I have seen 4 health center openings, a National Health Center Week, a couple Better Indy Babies/Healthy Families graduations, and been [...]
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!
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