The nurses help parents with prenatal health, child health and development and economic self-sufficiency.
A comprehensive approach to reforming juvenile justice must recognize the developmental differences between young people and adults, and include the nation's mental health, child welfare and education systems.
If the county stopped reimbursing us, the services would disappear because the county doesn't do mental health, child care, senior citizen, youth and drug and alcohol programs.
Social workers in health, child protection and mental health are being forced to hotdesk in Western Australia due to funding cuts.
U-reporters join and answer an SMS poll or question on issues dealing with health, child protection, school, safe water, and more.
My goal was to attract talented people who had that passion to focus on primary care, women's health, child health, and to do great work.
The study, "Westchester Children: By the Numbers," collected statistics from mostly government sources about local children in the areas of economic security, health, child care, education, child welfare and juvenile justice.
The Essex story, with its mental health, child protection, adoption and indeed international dimensions, gave vent to an extraordinary media outburst about "unaccountable and out of control" professionals riding roughshod over a mother's human rights.
Yet in recent years, Dr. Koplan said, he has noted the increased effect of politics on public health in many areas like maternal and child health, child rearing, family planning, abortion, violence and tobacco use.
Police, mental health, child protection and Family Court officials all had case files on the family, Dr. Curtis said, yet none was in communication with workers in the other agencies — a problem officials said they would try to remedy.
