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Empower Conference

By |2017-02-10T09:50:32-07:00April 18th, 2013|Licensing, Prevention|

Our Empower program is hosting its second annual conference Empowering Habits, Empowering Lives: Super Heroes in Action on May 4.  The conference is a great opportunity for providers in Early Care and Education settings to learn the new 10 Empower standards that have been established for 2013.  The conference sessions will also equip participants with [...]

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Empower Program Stepping it Up- Nationally

By |2011-06-24T13:36:34-07:00June 24th, 2011|Licensing, Prevention|

This is a story about making great-tasting sugar free lemonade from lemons.  About a year and a half ago the legislature passed a bill that eliminated our general funds for licensing (nursing homes, assisted living, hospitals, behavioral health, child care etc.).  In exchange, the Bill included a provision that gave us “exempt” rulemaking authority to collect [...]

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ADHS to Win Copper Quills

By |2017-02-10T09:51:46-07:00May 18th, 2011|Prevention|

Our Tobacco and Chronic Disease program will win 4 of the coveted International Association of Business Communicators Phoenix Copper Quill Awards this week.  The awards are given annually to outstanding marketing and communications efforts, as judged by communications professionals around the US and Internationally. This year we’ll be getting awards for: Our Venomocity website and social media [...]

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Child Nutrition Act of 2010

By |2010-12-20T09:28:07-07:00December 20th, 2010|Prevention|

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 became law this month.  This reauthorization of the federal school nutrition program includes a number of elements that will help move the needle on childhood obesity.  The Act recognizes the importance of school meals to the health and academic success of kids and gives school nutrition programs new [...]

Check Out Our New Empower Training Videos

By |2017-02-10T09:52:03-07:00November 15th, 2010|Licensing, Prevention|

Our collaborative team of professionals from WIC, Maternal & Child Health, the Office of Children with Special Healthcare Needs and our Office of Childcare Licensure just finished and posted 4 dynamite videos to help our AZ Childcare Centers and Homes to adopt our  Empower Pack wellness program.  The videos range from about 7 to 9 [...]

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Fresh Childcare Center Rules Go Live

By |2017-02-10T09:52:05-07:00October 4th, 2010|Licensing, Prevention|

The new child care center standards went into effect last week.  Check out our newly revamped child care licensing website, which has the latest for parents, consumers, childcare operators and others.  Our Licensing, rules, and all the other ADHS experts who contributed to the new rules and did a fantastic job.  Our success was directly [...]

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ADHS Status

By |2017-02-10T09:52:13-07:00July 21st, 2010|General, Newborn Screening|

We’ve got a lot to be proud of over the last year and an half.  It’s been hard, I know because of all of the budget reductions and the lower staffing level.  On the other hand, we’ve got an incredible mission and we’re doing a good job.  I often tell people that we work in [...]

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AZ Obesity Update

By |2017-02-10T09:52:14-07:00July 6th, 2010|General, Prevention|

The Trust for America’s Health released their annual obesity report.  Overall, the national trend toward increasing obesity rates continued it’s march forward.  Arizona ranked in the middle of the pack, but the pack itself in increasingly unhealthy.  More than two-thirds of states have adult obesity rates above 25 percent. In 1991, no state had an [...]

Child Nutrition Act

By |2010-06-29T09:29:12-07:00June 29th, 2010|Uncategorized|

As you remember from previous posts- the Child Nutrition Act has been introduced in the Senate and moved out of Committee.  This month, a bipartisan group of members in the U.S. House introduced a similar bill to reauthorize and amend the Child Nutrition Act, “Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act.”  The bill is posted at [...]

Updating AZ Childcare Center Standards

By |2010-06-15T15:28:07-07:00June 15th, 2010|Licensing|

You probably remember how we shifted from general funds to fee-based inspection programs.  The most controversial fee increase was for child care facilities, as the costs of inspecting child care facilities had been almost entirely subsidized by the state’s general fund.  In the end, we found a way to use alternative funding sources to provide [...]

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