5th Annual ‘Day for Children’- Sunday, September 17, 2006

According to Robert Oller, D.O., chief executive officer for NSU Health Care Centers, “A Day for Children significantly impacts our community. The annual increase in turn-out shows that parents and children are taking advantage of these valuable health care services provided through NSU’s collaboration with other major Broward County organizations.” 

Seventy-five booths, consisting of NSU students and faculty, representing different disciplines of the university, will volunteer their time to provide fun activities for the attending children. Representatives from NSU’s Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, Optometry, Allied Health and Nursing, the Center for Psychological Studies, Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the departments of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and the Institute for Children Services will be answering health care questions and providing free health screenings.

In addition to free screenings, there will be a variety of activities for children including a bounce house, contests, jugglers, arts and crafts, games, a puppet show, surprise guests, and raffles for educational materials. The Davie Police and Fire Department will be providing fingerprinting, ID cards and free safety and installation demonstrations of child car seats as part of the daylong activities. The Epilepsy Foundation will provide free bicycle helmets. The NSU library will also be on-hand to provide library cards for children and parents.  

Last year, more than 2,700 families attended “A Day for Children” and took part in the free health screenings for hearing and balance, vision, and dental health.

For more information about “A Day for Children”, call 954-NSU-CARE (678-2273)