Examining Children’s Health in D.C. 

For kids, mother and father, and educators alike, August begins the back-to-school season. 

Like clockwork, households are looking for garments and faculty provides and scheduling appointments for seasonal check-ups to validate required immunizations, in addition to guarantee dental, bodily and, and general well being and well-being.

Youngsters throughout the District characterize a wide range of existence, from numerous socioeconomic statuses to quite a lot of well being challenges, typically correlating to their household background and the vitality of the group through which they reside.

This month’s well being complement homes quite a lot of content material observing kids’s psychological and emotional wellness, dental well being, environmental well being, and extra matters to assist educate mother and father on present well being points and greatest practices in regards to the welfare of their younger ones.

Right this moment’s youth are dealing with a considerably completely different world of social tradition, influences, and peer pressures than what their elders needed to endure all through their adolescence.  

Whereas life within the District of Columbia has at all times offered its challenges for kids, there are psychological and emotional stressors, typically working a price on their bodily well being and being. 

Throughout August, The Washington Informer presents our Well being Complement discussing numerous matters surrounding pediatric well being.

Youngsters are the long run leaders of the world, and making certain they’re wholesome throughout one of the vital vital levels of their lives is essential.  

Our hope is that leaders inside District faculties, adults and fogeys perceive the significance of well being training, higher equipping themselves to guard, and direct kids as they navigate by way of the world round them.  

As we glance to the long run,  and as many individuals prep for a brand new college 12 months, The Informer encourages prioritizing youth’s psychological and bodily well being to ensure that them to thrive this college 12 months and past.