Healthy Kids Outreach Program

The Healthy Kids Outreach Program helps improve the basic health of children in Douglas County in two ways:

• HEALTHY EDUCATION --The Healthy Kids Outreach Program provides comprehensive health education at area schools, teaching kids how to stay healthy and make healthy choices. Educating kids on the fundamentals of personal and dental hygiene, communicable disease prevention, nutrition, exercise and heart health, and character development ensure a healthier community long into the future.

• CONNECTION TO CARE -- The Healthy Kids Outreach Program provides connection to appropriate community health care resources for children and families right at school, removing barriers that many of our families face. About half of our Douglas County children and families live at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Guideline, and about half of our kids don't have health insurance. Many of our families face transportation and financial barriers that HKOP helps overcome in our rural school communities.

The Healthy Kids Outreach Program helps Douglas County kids be at their very best; happy, healthy and productive citizens of the future. The health attitudes and behaviors of kids have already improved in the four short years HKOP has been in our schools.

 

For information please contact us at:

Mercy Foundation
2700 Stewart Parkway
Roseburg, OR 97471
(541) 677- 4818

info@mercygiving.org