FY 2005 Activity for Community Health Education and Child Safety Programs
- Your Family’s Health Lecture Series
- Heart to Heart Program on Growing Up
- Family Resource Center
- Safely Home Child Passenger Seat Fitting Station
Your Family's Health Lecture Series
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119 individuals attended three lectures on sleep disorders, healthy eating in a fast food world, and supporting a child’s creative and athletic performance.
Heart to Heart Program on Growing Up
- 90 families attended the "For Boys Only" sessions, 154 families attended the "For Girls Only" sessions and 83 families attended three lectures for mothers with sons, fathers with daughters, and a lecture about talking with your kids about growing up.
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Family Resource Center
- The Center handled 32,107 visits/encounters.
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Becoming Parents Perinatal Education Series
- 3,495 families attended programs focusing on vaginal and cesarean childbirth for first time or experienced parents; breastfeeding; sibling preparation; new family and grandparents programs; infant care, safety, massage and CPR; prenatal yoga and Pilates; and programs for parents expecting multiples.
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Parent Information and Referral Center (PIRC)
- PIRC answered 12,839 calls, a majority of which originated from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
- More than 34 percent of the calls concerned illness, 19 percent concerned newborn issues and 21 percent concerned general health questions.
- PIRC was able to divert 119 potential inappropriate emergency room visits.
- PIRC nurses called 5,500 parents of newborns born at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital to see how the family was doing and to introduce the PIRC service.
Teenage Health Resource Line
- Teens placed 1,126 calls to the Teenage Health Resource Line.
- Most calls concerned sexual practices, diet and nutrition issues, illness and referral to community resources.
- 27 percent of calls were from teenage boys.
- Callers ranged from 12-19 years of age, with the majority between 15-18 years old or high school students.
- More than one-third of the callers had called previously.
- A majority of the calls originated from San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco and Alameda counties.
Safe Kids Coalition
- The Safe Kids child passenger safety committee conducted nine check-up events, inspecting more than 500 car seats from Daly City to Morgan Hill.
- These check-ups confirmed national statistics that over 85 percent of all car seats are not installed correctly and thus do not provide optimal protection.
- Safe Kids sponsored a four-day National Highway Traffic Safety child-passenger certification course and an annual refresher course which drew 44 law enforcement officials, firefighters, nurses and others concerned about child passenger safety.
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Safely Home Child Passenger Seat Fitting Station
- The Safely Home Fitting Station provided instruction to 1,322 parents.
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