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National Poll Worker Recruitment Day is a national awareness day established by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to encourage people to help America vote by serving as poll workers. National Poll Worker Recruitment Day is Jan. 25.
Read moreAUSTIN — The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is encouraging health care practitioners and interested members of the public to take its new online human trafficking awareness and prevention-training course.
Read moreSeveral dozen school districts across the state were forced to close last week due to the omicron variant of COVID-19 sending home students, staff and teachers. Most school districts planned to reopen on Tuesday following the MLK holiday.
Read moreDrinking unpasteurized milk. Listening to records on a record player. Eating freshly slaughtered meat, eggs just laid and homemade butter. Having measles and chicken pox. Not knowing what a cell phone, streaming music, a DVD or Internet is. Being given castor oil in the fall. Having “monkey blood” put on cuts and scrapes.
Read moreThe local Parents as Teachers (PAT) program is proudly celebrating 20 years this year. In the last 20 years, 742 families and 1,142 children have benefitted. This last year alone, PAT helped prepare over 1,141 child lessons for 128 children in 95 families and offered these families 12 Group Connection opportunities. Health and developmental screenings were given and completed for 93 age-eligible children, and 93% of two-year-old children in the program were fully immunized.
Read moreAUSTIN — During National Cervical Health Awareness Month this January, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is encouraging women to get screened for cervical cancer.
Read moreThe Texas Health and Human Services Commission is again extending emergency food benefits this month, with more than $307 million in emergency allocations expected to help more than 1.5 million Texas households.
Read moreMore than 20 new state laws went into effect as Texans rang in the New Year, with another half-dozen to go on the books on Jan. 18, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Those laws include a ban on transgender athletes competing on sports teams that reflect their gender identity, and penalties for illegally restraining dogs.
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