Success Stories by Topic: Child welfare

• Replicating Best Practices to Improve Access to Health Care Services and to Reduce Rural Health Disparities for Children
  July 2009
  Several Health Professionals were hired to help children overcome a number of health disparities and access barriers in rural Oregon.
• Healthy Schools - Healthy Kids
  May 2009
  The project was designed to reduce alcohol, tobacco, and drug use; to address unsafe sexual behaviors; and to improve healthy diets and physical activity among children and adolescents.
• Smiles on Wheels Mobile Dental Program
  May 2009
  The purpose of this project was to implement a mobile dental service, Smiles on Wheels, that emphasized community-based oral health education targeting low-income preschool children through third-graders as well as pregnant women living in poverty in five rural counties in the Florida Panhandle.
• Connect for Healthy Kids
  May 2009
  Connect for Healthy Kids provided services to any families with children— from unborn children to children 8 years of age—in Grant County.
• Family Net
  May 2009
  The Oneida County Department of Social Services launched the Family Net program to provide a more coordinated, better functioning system of care for at-risk families.
• Hardy County School-Based Health Project
  May 2009
  The primary goal of the project was to improve access to health services for children in the Hardy County schools and to enhance their physical and emotional well-being by providing them with comprehensive health care services.
• Olympic Peninsula Maternal Child Home Visiting: Strengthening Services Through Collaboration
  May 2009
  The goals of the project were to improve the quality of maternal and child home visits through training, support, and enhanced local resources; to improve the home visiting program by increasing revenues through private insurance and Medicaid; and to expand the number of home visits by increasing outreach to postpartum women living in outlying areas.
• Tellico Plains Full-Service, School-Based Clinic
  May 2009
  The school-based clinic was designed to address several health problems in the community by improving the physical health status of school-age children in Tellico Plains and surrounding communities and by identifying and treating health problems and ensuring followup care.
• Pediatric Wellness Program
  May 2009
  The Pediatric Wellness Program was designed to be a comprehensive education and health intervention program targeting children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 years living in Tuscarawas County.
• Rural Health Outreach to the Cheyenne River Reservation: Creating an Early Health Care Community
  May 2009
  This project focused on increasing public awareness of early intervention services; providing prescreening, screening, and tracking services; referring children in need for further evaluation; providing evaluation and diagnostic services; and linking children to area resources.
• Treutlen County School Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Consortium members launched an onsite school clinic; conducted onsite assessments and screenings for vision, hearing, blood pressure, and mental health and provided various other services to Treutlen County students and staff.
• Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Program
  October 2007
  The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services’ Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program provides early intervention services to low income families in Nashville as well as other urban and rural areas in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
• Facilitating Health Care for Special Needs Children in Southwest Washington State
  July 2005
  The project consortium developed survey instruments, policies, procedures, and data forms and then contacted health departments, schools, and local medical and service providers to introduce project services and encourage referral of children with special needs.