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  2. Boys Town (organization) - Wikipedia

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    Boys Town, Nebraska. Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha.

  3. Nebraska home for dependent children - Wikipedia

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    It became apparent that the policy of collecting children and old ladies in a home, without adequate provision for placing the children in private homes by adoption or otherwise should be abandoned. In 1909, the legislature created the state public school for dependent children and located it at the home for the friendless, where, on July 2 ...

  4. Childhood immunizations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since 1990, when the vaccine was introduced as a routine vaccination in children, rates of acute Hepatitis B has decreased in the United States by 82%. This vaccine is given as a series of shots, the first dose is given at birth, the second between 1 and 2 months, and the third, and possibly fourth, between 6 and 18 months.

  5. and couldn’t — do with vaccines as HHS chief - AOL

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    One example of this is the Vaccines for Children Program, a 30-year-old program that provides vaccines to children whose parents or guardians might not be able to afford them.

  6. RFK Jr. meets with more GOP senators amid concerns about his ...

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    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to try to make his case to Republican senators that he can lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Also meeting with senators on ...

  7. Nebraska governor stands firm on rejection of federal money ...

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    Advocates of the program note that the administrative cost is far outweighed by the $18 million benefit, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates would benefit 175,000 Nebraska children ...

  8. Vaccines for Children Program - Wikipedia

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    Vaccination rates for preschool-aged children from 1967–2012, with Vaccines for Children program era marked. Immunization rates for all pre-school aged children increased to at least 90% for most vaccines in the 1990s. It is difficult to discern if this increase was directly caused by the VFC program.

  9. Vaccinate Your Family - Wikipedia

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    Vaccinate Your Family (VYF), formerly known as Every Child By Two (ECBT), is a non-profit organization, based in the United States, which advocates for vaccinations.Founded in 1991, its stated goals are to "raise awareness of the critical need for timely immunizations and to foster a systematic way to immunize all of America's children by age two."