Healthy Children

The Hall County Family Connection Network  is committed to improving the well-being of Hall County's children, families, and communities. The Network works jointly with partners across the county to address the serious challenges facing our children and families.

The Hall County Family Connection Network envisions that all Hall County children will be healthy, ready to start and succeed in school, and have stable, economically self-sufficient families that live in strong communities.

Since 1995, the Georgia Family Connection Partnership has measured the well-being of Georgia's children using Georgia Kids Count indicators. In 2005 the indicators were revised and expanded.

The first set of the revised Georgia Kids Count Indicators focuses on Healthy Children.

 
Healthy children begin with healthy mothers and healthy pregnancies.  Women who receive appropriate and adequate prenatal care, nutrition, and support services have a better opportunity to have a healthy baby.

In addition to focusing on healthy mothers, healthy pregnancies, and prenatal care, this report presents the importance of other indicators related to Healthy Children, including risky teen sexual behavior and premature deaths.


For more information about this indicator area in Georgia see the Georgia Family Connection Partnership's Connected to Practice Series: 
Best Practices--A Focus on What Works - Healthy Children (March 2008)


Georgia Kids Count Indicators - Healthy Children

(* Indicates Indicators highlighted in this report)

Healthy Start Index includes:
1. Birthweight more than 2,500 grams
2. Prenatal care in 1st trimester
3. Mother did not smoke or drink alcohol during pregnancy

*  Low Birth Weight

*  Infant Mortality

Eligible children enrolled in Medicaid or PeachCare

Eligible children, birth through age four, enrolled in WIC program

Child deaths, ages 1-14

*  Teen pregnancies, ages 15-17

*  Teen births, ages 15-19

*  Repeat teen births, ages 15-19

Incidence of STD for youth, ages 15-19

Teen deaths (homicide, suicide, and accident), ages 15-1 9