Success Stories by Topic: Children

• Dakota Smiles Mobile Dental Program
  November 2009
  This program is a dental office on wheels to provide restorative and preventive dental care to underserved children across South Dakota.
• South Georgia Regional Dental Health Initiative
  July 2009
  The South Georgia Regional Dental health Initiative was designed to provide on-site dental health prevention education in each of the five counties through a full-time Dental Hygienist and dental clinic services one day a week in dental clinic located in Turner County.
• Four County Health and Wellness Project
  July 2009
  The project’s goal was to provide increased access to wellness promotion, disease prevention, and rehabilitation services to residents living in the four-county region.
• Honoring our Children Project
  July 2009
  The Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council’s Honoring Our Children Project (HOC) developed a culturally competent, collaborative network of tribal and non-tribal health providers, elders, leaders, and community members to address the complex array of health care problems facing American Indians living near the Lac du Flambeau community.
• Van School-Based Health Care Initiative
  July 2009
  This project was designed to provide health promotion, health education, and primary health care services for more than 2,100 students in the Van Independent School District.
• 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.
• Women's Intervention Network of Scioto County
  July 2009
  WIN offered a variety of services such as gynecological exams and Pap tests, mental health assessments and counseling, advocacy and referrals, referrals and payment for mammograms, transportation, child care during appointments, and women’s health education to women in Scioto County.
• Adolescent Behavioral Health Project
  July 2009
  This project was designed to provide adolescents with an employment experience at the health center to help build self-esteem, develop healthy decisionmaking capabilities, and prevent the onset of chronic health problems. The medical center provided a range of behavioral health services to students at the two local schools, those participating in the employment program, and young children at home.
• North Idaho Partners in Care
  July 2009
  This project used a mobile clinic to reach remote, underserved rural areas in the region. The project has emerged as a model of community cooperation and persistence in addressing unmet health care needs in a large, rural, underserved area.
• Charlie's Place: Targeting Adolescent and Community Health
  May 2009
  Charlie’s Place was established to promote healthier lifestyles among the county’s adolescents.
• Skipa
  May 2009
  The Southern Kentucky Initiative for Pediatric Asthma (SKIPA) project conducted home visits to provide caregivers with knowledge, training, and support to decrease emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and school absenteeism related to asthma.
• West Middle School Wolverine Den of Health
  May 2009
  Local Organizations joined forces to establish a school-based health center at West Middle School in Montgomery County that focused on the health care needs of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
• 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.
• Health Connection for School Success
  May 2009
  Health Connection for School Success (HCFSS) was established to address the fact that children’s health not only is an important measure of community well-being but also is strongly associated with how well children perform in school.
• 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.
• Child Dental Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Child Dental Health Initiative was designed to develop and implement a comprehensive, innovative approach to the delivery of dental services to low-income children living in the MAYland region.
• Family Advocacy Network
  May 2009
  FAN was established to raise community awareness and educate providers about child abuse and domestic/sexual violence and to establish the FAN center as a coordinated response agency for victims and their families.
• Miles For Smiles
  May 2009
  The mission of the Miles for Smiles project was to create a mobile dental unit to provide quality, onsite dental care to low-income children in the seven-county area.
• Maquoketa Community School District (MCSD) Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  The MCSD Rural Health Outreach Program provided a wide range of health promotion and disease prevention activities including nursing offices in every school, annual health screenings for all students, dental care, mental health services, community education, annual scoliosis screenings for sixth through eighth grade students, and annual vision, height, weight, and blood pressure screenings.
• Ninth District Opportunity Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  Ninth District Opportunity, Inc., joined forces with several organizations in the area to promote safe and healthy home environments, to connect children to health care services, to reduce infant mortality, and to reduce the risk of a second teen pregnancy among area youth.
• Improving Access, Outcomes and Cost for Women's and Children's Health Services
  May 2009
  The project succeeded in establishing labor and delivery services at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
• Monroe Health Foundation Dental Clinic
  May 2009
  Good oral health habits can be developed at an early age. However, many children and adolescents living in rural areas do not have sufficient access to affordable dental health services. This is especially true in the area surrounding Monroeville, Alabama, where children and adolescents covered by Medicaid experienced numerous barriers to receiving oral health education and treatment services.
• Rural Alabama School Sets High Standards
  December 2007
  Dedicated teachers, and a "sense of community" figures prominently in the academic success of the rural Fruithurst elementary school.
• 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.
• IPAC: Integrated Health Services for Appalachian Children
  September 2007
  Focused on the assessment and comprehensive treatment of behavioral and developmental needs of children ages six and under, IPAC blends 19 university and community health care organizations in Appalachian Ohio into a partnership that provides "one-stop shopping for families."
• HELP New Mexico Farm Workers
  June 2007
  The Farm Worker Child Care Task Force is a collaborative program that provides access to health services and improved living conditions to New Mexican farm workers and their families in Ana and Luna counties.
• Healing Center Helps Children
  June 2007
  Dedicated to enriching the lives of children with disabilities in middle Georgia, The Healing Center provides financial assistance in physical, occupational, music, massage, speech, hippo, aquatic and mental therapies.
• People Incorporated of Southwest Virginia Project
  January 2007
  The goals of the project are to improve the overall health of low-income families in the four rural counties, increase physician knowledge of community-based resources to support low-income patients' self-efficacy, and provide community-based experience to medical residents.
• Mora & San Miguel Primeros Pasos/First Steps Program
  January 2007
  The Mora & San Miguel Primeros Pasos/First Steps Program proposes to serve up to 60 first-time parents and their children through the implementation of the research-based Healthy Families America Program.
• Northern New Mexico Rural Infant Mental Health Consortium Project
  January 2007
  The Northern New Mexico Rural Infant Mental Health Consortium project will provide access to mental health services for high-risk families with young children, from birth to age 5.
• Butte Consortium for Sexual Abuse Prevention
  January 2007
  The Butte Consortium for Sexual Abuse Prevention was formed to address child sexual abuse in Butte and southwest Montana, where the incidence of sexual abuse is unusually high.
• Mahnomen County Mental Health Consortium
  January 2007
  The Mahnomen County Mental Health Consortium will focus on at-risk children and adolescents and their families, while expanding access of the general population to short-term outpatient services to ensure earlier intervention for individuals and families.
• Connections Rural Health Initiative
  January 2007
  This projects main goal is to provide health care and human services for low-income children, youth, and families in two rural counties of central Kentucky.
• West Kentucky Dental Health Project
  January 2007
  The West Kentucky Dental Health Project (WKDHP) is a collaborative community-driven project that aims to build an infrastructure in 12 counties in rural western Kentucky to address early childhood caries and dental caries.
• Best Babies
  January 2007
  Best Babies will offer a comprehensive, integrated approach to perinatal care for women in these counties who are at high risk for adverse birth outcomes including maternal or infant mortality, low birth weight, very low birth weight, or other medical or developmental problems.
• Healthy Families Active Youth Rural Health Care Services Outreach Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Families Active Youth is a health promotion and fitness project that targeted elementary school children and their parents in two towns in rural southwest Idaho to prevent and treat pediatric obesity.
• Project All Aboard
  January 2007
  This project aims to identify developmentally delayed children early to ensure every child has an opportunity to reach their potential.
• Floyd County Dental Clinic
  January 2007
  The Floyd County Health Department Regional Dental Health Clinic was designed to provide access to oral health services in the following areas: Preventive care, restorative care, emergent care, nursing home services, fluoride varnish care, conscious sedation, and services under general anesthesia for five counties in Northwest Georgia.
• La Red Health Center Prenatal Services Program
  January 2007
  La Red Health Center (LRHC) expanded an existing program to offer prenatal and labor/delivery services to underserved and vulnerable pregnant women in Sussex County, Delaware.
• Tulare County Children's Health Initiative
  January 2007
  The Tulare County Children's Health Initiative (CHI) is focused on increasing dental and medical health access for children ages 0-18 through outreach and enrollment into publicly funded programs and by offering a new gap insurance product, Healthy Kids, for children ineligible for state Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
• Nelson County Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This Rural Health Outreach Program launched a school nursing program that placed registered nurses in each of the six Nelson County public schools as well as creating a supplementary health education program provided by a registered nurse who traveled to each site.
• Cold Water Safety in the Schools Program
  July 2005
  This program was established to deliver cold water safety and survival training to rural teachers, paraprofessionals, pool staff, and rural elementary, middle, and high school children throughout Alaska.
• 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.
• Kid Power
  July 2005
  The focus of this program was to enroll eligible children and educate their families about healthy nutrition, proper diet, exercise, and the importance of weight management in improving their overall health.
• Rural Health Outreach Program for Children (Mena, Arkansas)
  July 2005
  Nine local organizations that offered different types of health and social services agreed to create a consortium to share responsibility for providing a range of services to young parents and expectant mothers.
• School Health Network (Canton, Illinois)
  July 2005
  This network was designed to increase access to health care for school-aged children, improve student health status, and decrease absenteeism as well as launching a "Prevention Coalition" to address four key public health challenges in local schools: alcohol and other drug use; violence; teen pregnancy; and transmission of HIV and other STDs.
• Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  Consortium partner members designed the Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program to expand and enhance an established mobile primary clinic through patient education, increased trips per month, and increased patient visits per trip through a dial-a-ride program.
• Rural Health Outreach (Gold Beach, Oregon)
  July 2005
  The project's overriding mission was to stabilize the local clinic while providing health promotion and prevention opportunities in the core areas of heart, breathing, cancer, and diabetes.
• Williamsburg School Health Improvement Project
  July 2005
  Three consortium members joined forces to refer students without primary health care to primary care physicians; conduct health screening procedures by a school nurse; provide early periodic screening, diagnosis, and testing services to eligible students enrolled in grades kindergarten through sixth; provide hospitalization intervention for ambulatory-sensitive conditions in children under age 18; conduct health promotion sessions for the 13 county schools; provide counseling intervention services for substance abuse, child abuse, reproductive issues, and violence in each of the 13 county schools; and conduct home visits to provide family support services to families of school students in the 13 local schools.
• Youth Health Initiative
  July 2005
  School-based health clinics were established in six schools in two counties with successful innovations that included free immunizations for all youth in the targeted schools, a social worker to identify and enroll students eligible for Medicaid or CHIP and to perform case management on all enrollees, and teen educational programs and counseling services.
• Community Care Clinic
  July 2005
  Four network members funded and established a clinic to link existing health care providers and social services agencies to address and provide for the medical, emotional, and health education needs of individuals and families in seven counties designated Health Professional Shortage Areas.
• Expansion of Rural Dental Health Care Services in Macoupin and Montgomery Counties, Illinois
  July 2005
  Grant funds allowed this coalition to step up development of the dental clinic's comprehensive oral health services by purchasing equipment, expanding their hours, developing the clinic as a satellite teaching site, providing assistance to families newly eligible for Medicaid and offering oral health education to children in primary grades at all local schools.
• Healthy Kids Clinic
  July 2005
  Three local school districts, two local health departments, one nonprofit health agency, and all local area physicians and dental providers formed a consortium to provide health and dental services to students in the schools regardless of income or insurance status.
• Humphreys County Memorial Hospital Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  The project's main goals were to increase the numbers of K - 12 students who are covered by health insurance, who use the health care services provided, and who follow up on recommended health care; to increase transportation to primary and specialty health providers; and to decrease the number of families of K - 12 students who are noncompliant in regard to their children's health needs.
• Rural Health Outreach (Maine)
  July 2005
  The care management services provided by this project facilitated a cooperative effort among health care providers, patients, and community support services to create an outpatient care management program for rural consumers, especially the elderly, people with disabilities, minorities, and children who have chronic health problems including chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), diabetes, asthma, and heart disease.
• Rural Health Outreach Grant Program (West Wendover, Nevada)
  July 2005
  Four consortium members created this program to provide local access to mental health services and to provide a school-based program teaching resiliency and social skills to school-aged children and their parents.
• Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
  July 2005
  This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.
• Health for a Lifetime
  July 2005
  This project was designed to combat cardiovascular disease by addressing the modifiable risk factors, as described by the American Heart Association, in three populations: hourly wage workers, the African American faith community, and middle school children.
• Healthy Connections West
  July 2005
  The goal of this project was to provide mental health intervention services to targeted children and their families in order to achieve improved academic and social performance.