CITY-COUNTY SPECIAL RESOLUTION NO. 10, 2012 A SPECIAL RESOLUTION recognizing HealthNet‘s Homeless Initiative Program. WHEREAS, HealthNet‘s Homeless Initiative Program (HIP) has assisted thousands of Indianapolis’ homeless in finding employment and permanent housing since 1988, utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach to coordinate and provide housing, health care, outreach, employment and support services to the homeless in [...]
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You can help to……Open Doors With Care!
Did you know… 25% of the homeless in Indy are women fleeing from domestic violence?? 17% of Indy’s homeless are veterans?? HealthNet’s Homeless Initiative Program (HIP) recently launched an Open Doors With Care campaign in the hopes to raise $10,000 by March 10th to help Indianapolis’ homeless get back on their feet. As one of [...]
Opening Doors in any way possible – A Thank You
Before Christmas, the IU Health Revenue Cycle Services team ran a fundraiser for our Homeless Initiative Program (HIP). Even though this winter has been particularly warm, the holiday season is still a tough one for the homeless population. When everyone else is thinking about the gift they want to receive that they would never buy [...]
Sending love to those who deserve it: Our HealthNet staff
Working here in the Administration building, it makes it hard to send love to our fantastic staff on a daily basis or even a weekly basis. HealthNet staff members are those who carry out our mission of improving lives by providing compassionate health care and support services on the front lines. Everyday they take on [...]
Love a Veteran This Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is less than a week away! It’s a great day to share your appreciation not only with your family and loved ones, but also with those who help protect them. Next week most of us will scramble to buy cards and flowers for a sweetheart, but we should all look for a way [...]
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 [...]
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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