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...places like Africa, India, and Asia, the only time a child may ever see a health care provider is at birth. If children are vaccinated on the day they’re born, we can reach much more of the population,” Levy said...
Many of those in attendance were not Alaskans by birth, according to McKinley, who himself hails from Pennsylvania. “I’m actually an Alaska-phile,” he said...
...bigger than amnesty, workers’ rights, and equal access to education; this movement is an declaration of the universal human value. In the words of popular Guatemalan singer, Ricardo Arjona, it is an affirmation of the “universal visa” granted and taken away upon birth and death by “the consulate of the sky.” Past social movements have attacked the inequalities associated with being born of a different skin color, of a different gender, of a different economic class but never of having a different citizenship. I was born with...
Plans such as the one Oksana accepted still use the threat of removing a child from the home, but they also encourage troubled parents to enlist a support network--birth families, friends, in-laws, neighbors, nonprofit and government agencies--capable of interceding before a crisis develops. The results of this early-intervention approach, called Alternative Response, have been impressive. In Olmsted County, one of 20 counties that took part in a three-year pilot project, the recidivism rate for parents who went through the program tumbled from 16.1% in 2002 to just...
...months after Chloe's birth, Oksana met with members of Scott's family. She owned up to her past drug use, insisted that she had quit cold turkey and asked for their support. For their part, Oksana and Scott began to establish a caring relationship with their daughter while she lived in a foster home. Oksana visited Chloe regularly, starting with a few hours at her social worker's office and gradually increasing the time until Chloe was spending two nights a week with her parents. "We spent a lot of time cuddling," says Oksana. In February Oksana and Scott...