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  • 2012 Healthy Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Award Winners
    The state of Ohio is committed to promoting and protecting a mother’s right to breastfeed her child for as long as she chooses, whether or not she returns to work. The Healthy Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Awards program has two distinct awards. The Employer Award recognizes breastfeeding friendly employers that support their employees by “establishing and maintaining comprehensive, high-quality lactation support programs for their employees and working toward establishing paid maternity leave for all employed mothers”. The Business Award recognizes breastfeeding friendly businesses that create a supportive environment for their clients or customers who wish to breastfeed onsite. PDF
    updated on 12/18/12
  • New Website: Early Childhood Ohio
    The Ohio Departments of Education, Job and Family Services, Health, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities are pleased to announce the creation of a new early childhood website (www.earlychildhoodohio.org) that has been designed to be a central location for information regarding early childhood programs, updates and news. In addition to providing information about the system, there is a section on the website dedicated to updates on Early Learning Challenge Grant activities. HTML
    updated on 11/26/12
  • Social Media Effort to Help Families Get Healthier by Heading 'Back to the Kitchen'
    To help busy families find easy, practical ways to adopt healthier habits, Ohio State University Extension's family and consumer sciences program is launching a "Back to the Kitchen" social media campaign during the month of September. HTML
    updated on 08/27/12
  • Ohio State Involved in Gates Foundation's $8M Grant for Childhood Malnutrition
    Keywords: malnutrition, infants, children

    WOOSTER, Ohio -- An $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund an international team of scientists focused on finding new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a critical global health problem: malnutrition in infants and children. Linda Saif, a Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), is involved in the research, which will be led by Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The project seeks to discover novel dietary and microbial therapeutics that can be targeted to infants and children living in countries with rampant malnutrition.

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    Mauricio Espinoza, espinoza.15@osu.edu, 330-202-3550 HTML
    updated on 05/15/12

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  • Ohio Seed to Salad - Salad Bar Tool Kit
    Promoting salad bars in schools - listen to informative webinar, get Parents fact sheets, find out how to apply to get a free salad bar for your school. HTML
    updated on 12/18/12
  • Health e-Hints™ from Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Free eNewsletter: It’s like having a pediatrician in your inbox.
    Parents love our e-newsletter because it offers all the information needed–and only the information needed. Not only is it free, but our e-newsletter can also be customized for your family–the content grows with your child, so when she’s 2, you’re reading about potty training, and when she’s 5, you’re reading about going to kindergarten. Written by pediatric specialists, Health e-Hints™ will be your trusted resource. The information you provide is confidential and will not be shared with any other organization. HTML
    updated on 12/18/12
  • Health Information Library at Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Find age appropriate and medically reviewed health articles, breaking news, games, quizzes, mini health movies and much more for parents, kids and teens. HTML
    updated on 12/18/12
  • Breastfeeding Tips for Working Mothers
    The Ohio Department of Health offers suggestions for working mothers of nursing infants. PDF
    updated on 05/01/12

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  • Red Treehouse
    Relevant information to empower families. Connections to resources, support networks and events in your community. HTML
    updated on 08/09/12
  • Ohio Family and Children First
    The purpose of Ohio Family and Children First is to help families seeking government services by streamlining and coordinating services, resources, and systems.
    Mission: OFCF is a partnership of state and local government, communities and families that enhances the well-being of Ohio’s children and families by building community capacity, coordinating systems and services, and engaging and empowering families. HTML
    updated on 08/09/12
  • Ohio Action for Healthy Kids
    Ohio Action for Healthy Kids is part of a three-tiered structure of national, sate and regional teams working together to advance nutrition and physical activity by facilitating positive change in school.

    The mission of Ohio Action for Healthy Kids is to activate schools; families and the community to ensure our kids are healthy, fit and ready to learn. HTML
    updated on 05/21/12

  • Help kids feel safe, secure after disasters
    Key Words: coping, devastation
    Description: Disasters can leave children feeling frightened, confused, and insecure. Whether a child has personally experienced trauma, has merely seen the event on television, or has heard it discussed by adults, it is important for parents and teachers to be informed and ready to help if reactions to stress begin to occur. HTML
    updated on 04/30/12

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