Resources for Children's Health

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The State of Tennessee

The State of Tennessee has links to health information and to many health resources. Click on the underlined topic to link to information.

• Immunization provides parents and others with information about the need for immunization, its safety, and recommended schedules.
• Healthy Kids is a site for kids, with information on safety, safe cycling, not touching wild animals, dental care, with puzzles and childrenÍs art work.
• Children's Special Services describes services for children with special health care needs, including the Parents Encouraging Parents (PEP) program.
• Child and Adolescent Health Services includes information on Child Care Resource Centers, Child Fatality Review Teams, Home Visiting Program, Lead Poisoning prevention, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).

Other Tennessee sites include:

• Center on Child and Family Policy, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (VIPPS) has important links to Child and Family issues, including links related to Health Coverage.
• Children's Health Links via site of Tennessee Health Care Campaign has links to excellent national sites for children who are typically developing as well as children with special health care needs.
• Family Resource Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, provides information and resources for families and health care providers to help them understand medical conditions and how they affect children. The Center trains and assists families in using resources. It supports family-to-family networks.
• Family Voices of Tennessee is a Tennessee grassroots network of families and friends speaking on behalf of children with special health care needs.
• Nurses for Newborns Foundation offers in-home nursing visits to provide health care, education, and positive parenting skills.
• Tennessee Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics, provides links to useful sites for Parents and for Kids.
• Tennessee Family Pathfinder is a gateway for disability information and services and includes sections on Health Care and Mental Health.

National information resources include:

• Bright Futures is a practical developmental approach to providing health supervision for childrenof all ages from birth through adolescence.
• Family Voices provides information for parents of children with special health care needs. Family Voices en Español
• Health Topics A to Z is provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
• KidsHealth is from the medical experts of the Nemours Foundation. Each health topic is described at three levels„for parents, kids, and teenagers.
• National Institutes of Health
  
  Institutos Nacionales de la Salud y Salud de la A a la Z
• Zero to Three tells you the steps involved in a child's learning during the first 3 years.
• Health Library The Junior League Family Resource Center (JLFRC) at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has resources on more than 1,100 health conditions.

Week of the Young Child | Vanderbilt Kennedy Center

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