Samaritan Health Services would like to hear your input to the 2023 Community Health Needs Assessments during two listening sessions August 23rd & 24th.

August is National Breastfeeding Month and highlights the value of breastfeeding for mothers and children. You can read about all about breastfeeding in the August Pollywog Parent Newsletter.

The purpose of this 12-session ECHO program is to enhance the ability of primary care clinicians and healthcare team members to provide whole-person care to children and youth in foster/resource care, with attentiveness to the unique factors that drive health inequities and disproportionately for those children and youth with a history of child welfare involvement. 

Our Children Oregon invites you to hear the latest data on child well-being, understand how the pandemic continues to have lasting effects on our children and families, and uplift the opportunities we have together, to bring about transformational change for Oregon’s next generation.

Here is a report from the first joint year of the Family Connects program in Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties, plus plans for our second year.

Want to learn more about the science of child development? Curious about what’s going on in the minds of our youngest learners? Dive into the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) library of free resources that cover the latest research on topics from brain development to relationships.

Adult Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to help someone who may be developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis, and connect them to the appropriate care.  Training is on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm at the Albany Fire Department (611 SE Lyon St. Albany, Oregon).

The Corvallis Elks Lodge invites expectant parents and parents of babies up to six weeks of age to a Baby Shower on Saturday, August 6, 2022 from noon to 2:00. The location is 1400 NW 9th Street at the corner of Grant Avenue.

Free for children ages birth to five who are residents of Linn, Benton & Lincoln Counties.

Child care reimbursement rates are increasing for providers caring for children of families who receive support with child care expenses through the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS). ODHS pays child care providers for child care provided to families receiving child care assistance through the Employment Related Day Care (ERDC) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. The new child care reimbursement rates are effective June 1, 2022 and increasing due to the passage of House Bill 4005 of the 2022 Legislative Session.