Start the school year right with these healthy, after-school snack ideas and get an “A” for these amazingly fun and easy-to-make treats — thanks to HealthNet’s Health Promotions staff: Apple slices with peanut butter Fruit with low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese Banana or grapes with low-fat or fat-free milk Smoothie with yogurt, fruit and ice [...]
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4 days ’til 4th of July Weekend: PART THREE – School-Based Services
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 [...]
Child Abuse in Indiana, by the numbers
The Indiana Youth Institute just came out with their Kids Count in Indiana Data book. With this comes snapshots of data of each county in Indiana. In Marion County, the population of children totaled 236,434, and the following are some staggering numbers about our children: 24% live in poverty Teen birth rate is 35.5 (per [...]
Abuse and neglect prevention starts BEFORE birth
A report done by the National Center for Children in Poverty in September 2010 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 [...]
Each Day in America…
2,175 children are confirmed as abused or neglected. -Children’s Defense Fund In Indiana, a child is abused or neglected every 25 minutes, and most of the time, abuse and neglect can be prevented. HealthNet’s Better Indy Babies program uses an originally designed outreach model that consists of teams of health care workers which include social [...]
Preparing children for Kindergarten is more than 2+2…
There is nothing like seeing the look on a child’s face when a lightbulb goes off, and she realizes that 2+2 REALLY DOES equal 4. It is always a challenge for parents to not only get their child ready for the cognitive portion of the classroom but also the social and emotional challenges that come [...]
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