Child Health & Well-Being
The Center aims to improve child outcomes and child and family policies in Georgia through applied policy analysis and research. Grants from public and private sources fund programs in the areas of school health, childhood obesity, and child well-being.
Childhood Obesity. Georgia Health Policy Center helped the Division of Public Health coordinate “Building Healthy Communities from the Ground Up Through Nutrition and Physical Activity,” a workshop offered in Timber Ridge and Dublin, GA, May 5 and 12 respectively; tracked completion of the 2006 Georgia School Health Profiles Survey; and developed, designed and provided training on a toolkit for faith-based organizations to implement education, policy and environmental changes.
Building Strong Families. The Building Strong Families project is a program funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Association for Child and Family Services to learn whether well-designed interventions can help couples fulfill their aspirations for a healthy marriage and a strong family. The project tested interventions with low-income, unwed couples who are interested in marriage, beginning during pregnancy or around the time of their child’s birth. The programs were designed to help such couples strengthen their relationship, achieve a healthy marriage if that is the path they choose, and thus enhance child and family well-being.
Oral Health. Georgia Health Policy Center provided claims data analysis for the Georgia Oral Health Prevention Program, Division of Public Health staff.
Georgia’s Medically-Fragile Children. The Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta awarded a contract to the Georgia Health Policy Center to research the needs of some of Georgia’s most medically-fragile children, who, due to federal regulation, are no longer covered by TEFRA (i.e.. Katie Beckett Waiver).
Nurse Home Visit Evaluation. Georgia Health Policy Center is under contract with the Georgia Division of Public Health to evaluate its Intensive Home Visiting Program Model. The model includes trained supervised Pubic Health (PH) nurses who will provide frequent and intense home visits with families of young children identified as at risk for abuse and neglect.
