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Child Abuse Prevention
By Julie Ahern, NP, Manager, Pediatrics April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month and throughout the year, Whittier Street Health Center encourages all individuals, families, and organizations to play a role in making Roxbury and the surrounding communities a better place for all children and families. The principal types of maltreatment of children are […]
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By Ragan McNeely, LMHC Supervising Clinician Substance Abuse Services Alcohol Awareness Month has been held every April since 1987, sponsored and founded by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc., (NCADD). The Council was founded by Marty Mann, who was amongst the first group of women who got sober in Alcoholics Anonymous in […]
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