SHELTON - The 11th Annual Children’s Health and Safety Fair will take on a Family Carnival theme, providing free food, fun, and games along with a variety of health, wellness and safety programs and displays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, One Positive Place.
Sponsored by the Valley Parish Nurses of Griffin Hospital, the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, and Griffin Faculty Practice Primary Care, the fair will feature carnival games, a moon bounce and magic show.
Free food, drinks and healthy snacks will be available.
Other activities include health, wellness and safety interactive displays, a car seat and bike helmet clinic, the Child Identification Program (CHIP), fire engines, safe house rescue vehicles, and much more. Free bike helmets will be available for the first 300 children.
Attendees also will have an opportunity to tour the Griffin Hospital Mobile Health Resource Van, featuring books, magazines, pamphlets, Internet access, audio and video, and other health education materials. Nurses will be available to answer a variety of health-related questions.
The Griffin Hospital Valley Parish Nurse program was established in 1990 and is now one of the largest in the country, with nearly 40 participating churches, more than 125 parish nurses, and 350 additional volunteers who support the nurses and who serve on the health cabinets of the individual churches.
The Boys & Girls Club provides, in a safe environment, programs that inspire, educate, guide, and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Griffin Faculty Practice Primary Care is a multi-specialty medical group affiliated with Griffin Hospital, offering exceptional, personalized care to residents in the Lower Naugatuck Valley and surrounding communities at our conveniently located offices in Derby, Oxford, Seymour and Shelton.
For information about the fair, call 203-732-7371 or 203-732-7584.
This information was taken from a release from Griffin Hospital.
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