Community Activities Resources
Resources
- AAP: Practice Transformation
- AAP: Community Pediatrics – the practice of promoting and integrating the positive social, cultural, and environmental influences on children’s health.
- FL DOH: How to Plan Community-based Projects – Florida Department of Children and Families Automated Community Connection to Economic Self Sufficiency (ACCESS).
- Alachua County Resource Guide (Child and Family) – Color-coded guide to all the many different child/family specific resources.
- Camp Boggy Creek – Volunteer your time and learn a ton about metabolic and endocrine disorders?
- Children’s Movement of Florida – a citizen-led, non-partisan movement to educate political, business, and civic leaders – and all parents of the state – about the urgent need to make the well-being and education of our infants, toddlers, and all other children Florida’s highest priority.
- Community Resource Guide for Families with Special Needs – Resource guide specifically for families with special needs.
- Community Tool Box – a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. It offers thousands of pages of tips and tools for taking action in communities.
- The Commonwealth Fund – Check out the most recent data on Gainesville, Florida.
- Florida KidCare – offers health and dental insurance for children ages 5 through 18.
- Guardian Ad Litem – Program for children in the legal system.
- HealthStreet -Community-based program for reducing disparities in healthcare and research.
- IFH: The Health Information Wheel is a representation of a person’s overall health using spokes to convey a number of important aspects of wellness. Individuals can use these aspects and their extensions to help evaluate and improve their overall health and wellness.
- UF Mobile Outreach Clinic – The aim is to reach out to neighborhoods in Alachua County suffering health disparities and offer free or reduced priced primary care to individuals in these communities. Services offered are: Health Screenings and Education, Family Medical Services, Family Planning, and Resources and Referrals.
- Power to Decide – The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
- Partnerships for Strong Families – Site dedicated to connecting families to resources.
- GRACE Marketplace – our mission is simple: to end homelessness. We work toward that goal by providing safe shelter, effective services, and permanent housing solutions for people without any of the typical barriers that keep people from getting help.
- The State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS) – collects important health care data at State and local levels.
- Florida Health Statistics & Data
- HRSA – provides maps, data, reports, and dashboards to the public about HRSA’s health care programs.