Other Resources
A “portable medical record” helps parents and caregivers manage and organize their child’s health care needs and history by providing a place to record important information about your child to be shared with medical, school, and other professionals.
Download:
Portable Medical Record /
Registro Médico Portátil
Preventative Health Services
First 5 Riverside aims to foster a healthy community and provide access to preventative mental and physical health services. It funds the following agencies to help achieve this goal. Palo Verde Unified School District; Riverside County Department of Public Health; Injury Prevention Services; Riverside County Department of Public Health-Immunization-Loving Support Breastfeeding Program; Riverside County Regional Medical Center; San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital Borrego Community Health Foundation's Smile Factory; Riverside Community Hospital; Hemet Valley Medical Center; Parkview Community Hospital.
Mental Health Initiative
This initiative’s goal is to promote social competence by preventing and treating disruptive behavior disorders. It is designed to support a full continuum of primary prevention, screening/early identification and early intervention, and treatment interventions, targeting one or more high risk communities with the goal of significantly increasing early childhood social competence and decreasing the development of disruptive behavior disorders.
Children's Health Initiative
Inland Empire Health Plan in partnership with the Healthy Kids program, the County Board of Supervisors and First 5 Riverside have collaborated efforts to ensure that the children of Riverside County families with incomes at or below 350 % of the Federal Poverty Level will be covered by Medi-Cal/dental insurance.
First 5 Riverside Americorps Building Healthy Smiles (BHS)
Program Vision:
Children 3-5 and parents in Riverside County will be educated on the importance of oral hygiene techniques through an increased awareness of the value of dental visits, brushing and nutrition. They will continue to build upon these values over the course of their lifetime.
Mission:
Building Healthy Smiles will partner with educational institutions to deliver results in the areas of proper oral hygiene, making families smarter and healthier.
Guiding Principles: Respect the social, cultural and ethnic diversity of families and communities. Provide each child with the respect and care they deserve. Support access to services for all families through referrals and dissemination of resource materials , etc. Support and encourage oral health education, awareness and prevention to families that are geographically and socially isolated.
