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
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