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Program: Enhancing Developmentally-Oriented Primary Care (EDOPC)

Description: Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care (EDOPC) was a three-year (2005-2007) education and policy project to improve the health and development of young children in Illinois. As studies have consistently indicated, pediatricians and other health care providers can significantly improve care by increasing the use of validated screening tools and referring at-risk and delayed children for services. EDOPC taught the use of validated tools to screen for developmental, social-emotional (mental health), maternal depression, autism, and domestic violence issues with the 0-3 population.

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Program: Give Kids A Smile

Description: The first annual program in 2002 grew from the dire need for access to oral health care for disadvantaged children. Too many children can’t sleep or study properly because of pain from untreated oral health conditions. The goal: to stimulate new volunteer programs nationwide to treat low-income children for free and aggregate existing charitable programs under a single banner.

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Program: Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Campaign

Description: Approximately 1 in 1,000 newborns is born profoundly deaf with another 2-3 out of 1,000 babies born with partial hearing loss, making hearing loss the most frequent birth defect in America. Congenital hearing loss has often be described as the “invisible disability” since it historically has been largely misdiagnosed and detected beyond the first three years of life when the brain is most malleable.

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Program: Highway Watch

Description: Highway Watch is an ATA-designed safety program that has been in effect since May 1998. Originally, Highway Watch trained professional truck drivers to spot and properly report safety incidents on the roads they traveled: crashes, stranded motorists, aggressive drivers, etc. Law enforcement authorities would then handle the report accordingly.

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Program: Good Turn for America

Description: Good Turn for America was launched in February 2004 and is a national call to service by the Boy Scouts of America. It is estimated that 8.5 million people, including 2.9 million children, live in homes that experience hunger; 4.9 million households and 10.9 million individuals face housing needs; 9 million school-age children are obese; 80% of obese children will go on to be obese adults.

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Program: Ladders to Success

Description: The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker are just a few of the 376,100 workers needed by the restaurant industry in Ohio. To fill these jobs and many more, the Ohio Restaurant Association partners with the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission, the state agency that helps people with disabilities get jobs and become independent. Through a joint program called Ladders to Success, people with disabilities are recruited, trained, and placed in competitive jobs.

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