Since 1999, Ringgold County Parents as Teachers (PAT) has served families of young children by providing developmental education, screenings, and resource linkage through both home-based visits and group connection activities. Although the program will be ending through Ringgold County this month, the services will continue on through Southwestern Community College (SWCC). SWCC currently provides PAT services in Adair, Adams, Taylor, and Union Counties but will be adding Ringgold soon. “A variety of factors weighed in on the decision,” states Becky Fletchall, RN, BSN Nurse Administrator of Ringgold County Public Health. “The priority of assuring families would continue to receive these important services, potential funding cuts, staff changes, increased administrative requirements, threats of regionalization, and training costs were weighed in the decision to ask SWCC to expand their programming to cover Ringgold County.” SWCC is currently advertising for the position and plans to have staff primarily based at the Ringgold County Public Health through a sharing agreement.
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