Community Health Education and Child Safety Programs

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital makes the expertise of its staff available to the community through classes, lectures and resources for parents and teens. Basic information is often not as obvious at it seems, and delicate topics can be hard to teach at home. Packard Children’s Community Benefits program provides outstanding community health education that enables individuals of all ages to make good decisions for themselves.

Community Health Education and Resources
Child Safety Programs

Community Health Education and Resources

Becoming Parents Classes
The Becoming Parents Perinatal Education Series provides health education to the child-bearing community through classes, lectures and birth-center orientations. The goal is to provide prenatal and postpartum parents the information and support needed to begin a successful family.
Your Family’s Health Lecture Series
The Your Family’s Health lecture series brings the expertise of Packard Children’s staff to the community and provides practical information about health concerns and preventive approaches. It is offered monthly during the school year.
Heart to Heart Program on Growing Up
Heart to Heart is a two-part program for pre-adolescents and their same-gender parent (mothers-daughters, fathers-sons) or adult resource. The goal is to enhance the child’s understanding of the challenges of puberty and to help the parent to be a resource in the child’s life.
Family Resource Center
The Family Resource Center provides Packard Children’s parents, their families, and members of the community with consumer health information about pediatric and maternal health issues. The goal is to foster understanding of pediatric, maternal and medical issues and to support families in coping with illness and hospitalization.
FY 2005 activity

Child Safety Programs

Safe Kids Coalition
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital is the coalition leader for more than 50 participating agencies - from police and fire departments to city recreation departments - that power the Safe Kids Coalition of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. It is a broad coalition that educates our neighbors on the safety measures that can prevent the unnecessary and unintentional injuries or deaths of children aged 14 and younger.
Safely Home Car Seat Fitting Station
At our Maggie Adalyn Otto Safely Home Car Seat Fitting Station, located right in the Packard Children’s parking lot, a certified technician helps parents learn how to safely install car seats.
FY 2005 activity