Links

• Virginia Department of Health: Center for Health Statistics - Contains links to state and national data sources on teen pregnancy.
  
  
• Parent Tool Kit
  
  
• Local Health Districts
  
  
• Healthy Virginia Communities - A VDH Report on Year 2000 Health Status and Risk Reduction Indicators for the Commonwealth of Virginia and Health Districts
  
  
• Office of Family Health Services
• Teen Pregnancy Prevention - Efforts to reduce teen pregnancy.
• BabyCare - Intensive case management for women at high risk of poor outcomes.
• Virginia Healthy Start - Preventing infant mortality and poor outcomes, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes.
• Breastfeeding - Improving the health of pregnant women.
• Brightfutures

National

• Smart Beginnings
  


• March of Dimes - Answers to questions about pregnancy, birth, prevention of birth defects, importance of folic acid, statistics.
  
  
• Bright Futures - Comprehensive child and adolescent health guidelines.
  
  
• Zero to Three - Information for parents and professionals about the child's development in the first three years and parent's roles.
  
  
• National Clearinghouse on Substance Abuse - Updated information related to drugs, alcohol and tobacco and pregnancy.
  
  
• Center for Sustainable Health Outreach - Georgetown University and University of Southern Mississippi provide information on implementing the recommendations of the Annie E. Casey Foundation report about lay community health workers' roles in health care delivery.
  
  
• The David and Lucille C. Packard Foundation - Foundation has issued two reports on the effectiveness of home visitation programs.
  
  
• Virginia Center for Health Outreach - A training center for community health workers.

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Catherine Bodkin, LCSW, MSHA , catherine.bodkin@vdh.virginia.gov
109 Governor Street., Richmond, VA 23219
Phone: (804) 864-7768