Maternal and Child Health
HRSA administers a broad range of programs services to pregnant women, mothers, infants, children and their families — and children with special health care needs. The largest of the programs, the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant, includes State Formula Block Grants, Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS), and Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) projects. Other vital missions include Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, Traumatic Brain Injury, Healthy Start, Sickle Cell Service Demonstrations, Family to Family Health Information Centers, Emergency Medical Services for Children, and autism.
Read more about this topic: Maternal And Child Health Bureau
Famous quotes containing the words maternal, child and/or health:
“Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined.”
—John Abbott. The Mother at Home; or the Principles of Maternal Duty, John Abbott, Crocker and Brewster (1833)
“Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)
“A woman’s health is her capital.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)