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ACT
Kids Health Fair
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Date: September 29, 2012
Venue:
ASU Preparatory Academy
735 E. Fillmore Street
Phoenix, Arizona
Phone: 602-370-7049
Email:
ctkidshealthfair@cox.net
Web:
www.actkidshealthfair.org
The
Arizona Coalition for Tomorrow (ACT) is a not-for
profit organization of concerned citizens committed to
improving the health and education readiness of
low-income children. They provide the environment for
comprehensive health screenings and immunizations
through an annual award-winning health fair, thereby
enhancing the quality of life for children, their
families, and the community in which they live. |
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The organization seeks to be an outstanding model
of how private and public sector partnerships can improve the health, education,
and overall quality of life of low-income children and families, while
increasing the numbers served. The goal: to help provide a healthy future for
Arizona's children.
The annual ACT Kids Health Fair serves at-risk
children who are eligible for metropolitan Phoenix Head Start programs, but lack
appropriate medical clearances. This all-volunteer event addresses the full
spectrum of health requirements: transportation to and from the children's
neighborhoods, all appropriate medical screenings and immunizations,
establishing and updating medical records, and arranging emergency or continuing
care as needed. Over 20,000 children have been screened to date.
Sponsors and Exhibitors
Financial, in-kind, and volunteer support from the
following Phoenix metro businesses, health care organizations, non-profit
groups, and government agencies help to make our ACT Kids Health Fair a reality.
You too can support the ACT Kids Health Fair through the Arizona Tax Credit for
services to the working poor.
Volunteering
Approximately 900 volunteers make each year's
Health Fair event a reality. Donating their time will be physicians,
specialists, and dentists, along with nurses and nursing students, and health
technicians, entertainers, and lay volunteers. All of these people, many of them
bilingual in Spanish, work together to ensure that each child receives necessary
dental and hearing examinations, vision screening, blood test, TB test,
physicals, and immunizations.
Please
note that Expo
details are subject to change.
Always contact Expo management directly for up to date contest details
or any questions. And be sure to visit the Expo website
for all show information:
www.actkidshealthfair.org
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