Healthy Kids Outreach Program
The Mercy Foundation’s Healthy Kids Outreach Program (HKOP) celebrates 10 years!
Ten years of helping kids throughout our county have the best possible health and educational opportunities for personal success. Healthy Kids Outreach Program, HKOP, helps Douglas County kids be at their very best; happy, healthy and productive citizens of the future. The health attitudes and behaviors of kids have already improved in the four short years HKOP has been in our schools.
The Healthy Kids Outreach Program helps improve the basic health of children in Douglas County in three ways:
DENTAL SCREENINGS AND TREATMENTS- With generous grants from the Oregon Community Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, Ronald McDonald Charities, the Walmart Foundation, and Advantage Dental, Healthy Kids staff started rolling out the addition of onsite dental clinics in 2011. Students receive a dental screening, sealants, and fluoride varnishes to protect them from getting cavities and they go home with a report card and dental kits that include a toothbrush, toothpaste and floss.
HEALTHY EDUCATION - The Healthy Kids Outreach Program provides comprehensive health education at area schools, teaching kids how to stay healthy and make healthy choices. Educating kids on the fundamentals of personal and dental hygiene, communicable disease prevention, nutrition, exercise and heart health, and character development ensure a healthier community long into the future.
CONNECTION TO CARE - The Healthy Kids Outreach Program provides connection to appropriate community health care resources for children and families right at school, removing barriers that many of our families face.
About half of our Douglas County children and families live at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Guideline, and about half of our kids don't have health insurance. Many of our families face transportation and financial barriers that HKOP helps overcome in our rural school communities.
The Healthy Kids Outreach Program helps Douglas County kids be at their very best; happy, healthy and productive citizens of the future.
We are looking forward to the next ten years of serving local students and also seeing the fruits of our investment: An equal playing field for all kids where the focus is on the health of the kids and making sure Every Kid Counts.
HKOP Dental Program Upcoming 2024 Events
First Thursday at the Dept. of Human Services at 738 W Harvard, Roseburg
July 11th, & August 1st
Boys & Girls Club at 1144 NE Cedar Street, Roseburg
Dental Learning Lab: July 31st & August 21st
Dental Clinic: August 6th
Fullerton Elementary at 2560 W Bradford Ct., Roseburg
Dental Clinic: July 23rd
Glide Elementary at 1477 Glide Loop Dr., Glide
Dental Clinic and Dental Learning Lab: July 17th
Green Elementary at 4498 Carnes Rd, Roseburg
Dental Clinic and Dental Learning Lab: July 16th
Melrose Elementary at 2960 Melrose Rd, Roseburg
Dental Clinic and Dental Learning Lab: July 30th
Riddle Elementary at 463 Park St, Riddle
Dental Clinic: July 9th
Safety Day at Sherm’s Thunderbird Market, 2553 NW Stewart Pkwy, Roseburg
Dental Clinic and Dental Learning Lab: July 20th
HKOP’s dental team will also be at school registration to sign up youth for school-based dental services for the 2024-2025 school year.
August 12th - Days Creek
August 13th - Glendale, Brockway and Glide Middle and High schools
August 14th - Fremont Middle School
August 22nd - JoLane Middle School; Lookingglass Elementary and Riddle Elementary
HKOP Nurses
The nurses will provide health awareness education with a series of fun, interactive activities for youth at the summer lunch programs. Schools include: Boys and Girls Club; Glide; North Douglas; Oakland; Riddle; Sutherlin West; Tri-City; and Winchester.
They will also be at the Dept. of Human Services First Thursday events, Camp Millennium and Mercy Foundation’s Type 1 Diabetes Summer Camp on July 30th at St. Joseph.
