World Blood Donor Day 2018 is on June 14th.  It is an annual event, usually on the same date each year, to thank voluntary blood donors and acknowledge them and encourage blood donation and new donors, especially by representing how blood donations have saved and changed lives. The Day has the slogan ‘Share Life, Give […]

How much do you know about Parkinson’s?  It is mostly thought of as a condition that people get when they are older, but younger people can have it, too. Parkinson’s Awareness Week takes place from April 10-16, 2018, and the organizers want to draw attention to the disease that affects people slowly and progressively gets […]

A Parents as Teachers group meeting is being planned for Thursday, April 19, at 5:30, at the Dragoon Trace Nature Center.  Ranger Kate will be sharing ideas for outdoor sensory play.  More information will be posted here as the plans take shape!

When it was controversial to even think of asking parents about taboo subjects, the ACE Study dared to ask questions like, “Were you sexually abused as a child?”  “Did you have a parent who was an alcoholic?”  The answers produced a public health revelation.  For the first time, the loss of a parent through death, […]