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HEALTHY FAMILIES PROGRAM
Healthy Families is a
family-centered, strength-based program that provides in-home
support and assistance to parents of young children, prenatal
through five years of age that reside in Lyon County.
The goals of our program are to
support and strengthen families in bulding the foundation of
safe, nurturing environments in which children thrive.
Healthy Families is a voluntary program offered at no cost
through Northwest Iowa Empowerment Funding.
HEALTH PROMOTION
Health Services of Lyon County
participates in a four county Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention Program through a grant from the Iowa Department of
Public Health. Our goal is to have every child under the
age of six tested for lead poisoning. Our focus is on
increasing awareness of lead poisoning and testing, inspecting
houses where lead-poisoning children live, and assisting in the
care of lead poisoned children and their parents.

LYON CO. TOBACCO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
Lyon County Tobacco Community
Partnership is funded through a grant form the Iowa Department
of Public Health.. Our goals are to 1) prevent tobacco use
initiation among youth 2) promote cessation among young people
and adults 3) eliminate nonsmokers' exposure to secondhand smoke
4) identify and eliminate the disparities related to tobacco use
and its effect among different population groups. Lyon
County is teaming up with Sioux County to form Sioux/Lyon
ASH-Action on Smoking and Health.
EMERGENCY PLANNING and PREPAREDNESS
Health Services of Lyon County's
role in emergency planning and preparedness is to provide an
organized and comprehensive response to a bio-emergency or a
terrorist attack involving a biological agent.
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