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www.kidsdentalhealth.org This website offers facts, news, and resources regarding children's oral health. In 2003, 17 percent of children in Santa Clara County and 11 percent of children in San Mateo County did not have dental insurance. Across the state, about one in four children suffer from tooth decay that goes untreated, according to a new statewide assessment by the Dental Health Foundation. |
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'Survival Guide' Tackles Stress, Divorce "The Parent Survival Guide," a KTEH pilot series that is funded in part by our foundation, aims to meet the needs of Silicon Valley parents by addressing their problems and putting them in touch with a wide variety of parenting resources. The two-part pilot, which addressed student stress and divorce, aired in early May 2005. |
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Children's
Health Tops Californians' Concerns Californians rate "the well-being of children" as their chief concern, outranking the cost of living, taxes, the war in Iraq and terrorism, according to a new poll conducted by the Field Research Corporation for the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. Locally, San Mateo County and neighboring Santa Clara County recently released reports on the state of children's health. |
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'Preteen
Health Talk' Website Launched in October 2004 by the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, with support from our foundation, "Preteen Health Talk" offers health information for children ages 9-12 and their parents, on topics ranging from divorce to nutrition to puberty. |
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Student
Stress Is Focus of Conference "SOS: Stressed Out Students," a conference co-sponsored by the Stanford School of Education and our foundation, addressed stress among students in middle school, high school, and college. Schools that participated in the event assembled later in the year to report on progress in alleviating stress at their schools. |
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Children
of Alcoholics Approximately one in four children in the U.S. is exposed to alcohol abuse and/or alcoholism in the family. To raise awareness of this important topic, our foundation co-sponsored a broadcast of the award-winning documentary, Lost Childhood: Growing Up In An Alcoholic Family, on PBS stations throughout the country. |
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Preteen
Emotional Health Tops Parent Concerns A Foundation survey suggests that issues related to emotional well being are the chief concern for local parents, though most say their children are doing well overall. |
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Childhood
Matters Radio Shows These Childhood Matters and Nuestros Niños call-in radio shows, funded in part by our foundation, will focus on how to understand and encourage preteens during these key transitional years. This series of shows about preteens began Sunday, Feb. 6. |
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