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Text Box: Please bring your child to this FREE child safety program. In your area, this service is being provided as a donation to your community by: Phil Bachman Honda. The DNA LifePrint Child Safety Program promotes child safety awareness and provides important tools to families which can help protect their children against violence. This community event provides parents: A Child Safety Journal which will provide law enforcement officials with all the necessary vital information about your child and other important facts they will need immediately after a child is

Text Box: reported missing. A high quality full color Digital Photograph of your child. A Super Video-CD (with audio and visual) of your child. A Home DNA Identification Kit that is easy and lasts through generations. The DNA LifePrint Child Safety Program provides parents the right tools to save precious time in getting the vital information to law enforcement officials. If a child becomes missing, parents greatly increase their chance of quickly

Text Box: recovering their child if they immediately provide current statistical information, a Super Video-CD, a high quality full color photograph, and a DNA sample to law enforcement. This valuable service will be offered for free one time only, on Saturday, September 16th, 2006 from 10:00am-3:00pm at Phil Bachman Honda at 2217 E. Stone Drive, Kingsport. Please call 423-245-9141 and speak with Jim McCoy for questions or more information. The only record of this visit is handed to you to take home. The event sponsor keeps no records on file.

Text Box: tend to continue into adult life, improvements in the diets of children are likely to continue to benefit them as they become adults. As obesity has become more common, so has type 2 diabetes. At the same time, soft drink consumption has doubled in children and adolescents. There is evidence children who regularly consume sugar sweetened soft

Text Box: Obesity has become epidemic in the U.S., and in 1998 it was estimated that 22% of children under 5 years of age were obese. Today that percentage continues to grow. Adding to this concern is that obese children are likely to become obese adults, with all the health problems that go along with being overweight. Improving overall diets can help reduce obesity in children, and because diet patterns

Text Box: drinks are more likely to be at risk of obesity. Now researchers have asked whether these drinks from childhood may be contributing to both obesity and type 2 diabetes in adults. Parents are strongly urged to monitor their child’s diet, including what they drink. Research suggests that this will not only promote healthier children, but healthier adults in the long run. Information for Healthy Kids is provided for you by Hawkins County’s Health Services

Text Box: offer: Respite and Recreation Opportunities Support Groups Activity/Support Groups for Children and Teens Educational Workshops for Children, Teens, Parents and Relative Caregivers.

Text Box: Emergency Financial and/or start up assistance for eligible families. For more information please call Shannon Wallace at (865) 483-9111. The Relative Caregiver Program is a free service funded through a grant with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services and provided by Foothills Care, Inc.

Text Box: Are your raising a relative’s child (grandchild, niece, nephew, cousin)? If so, you are not alone. There is a place you can get help and information for: Parenting Issues Legal Issues School Issues Mental Health Issues Obtaining Basic NeedsAnd More!We