Health Department

Provide support for families with children (prenatal – age 21) in the following ways:

• Provide linkage to medical resources for all family members

• Provide parenting education and developmental screenings for children

• Children’s Special Services (CSS) provides financial assistance for children from birth to age 21, who have chronic illnesses or disability needs (subject to family income requirements)

• Tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment, testing and treatment

• Confidential sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment

• Confidential HIV testing and treatment referral

• Confidential and confirmatory testing and case management for hepatitis C

• Adolescent pregnancy prevention

• Baby & Me-Tobacco-Free Program

• Breastfeeding promotion

• Chronic disease prevention

• Fetal/Infant Mortality Review and Prevention

• Healthy Weight Program

• Minority health outreach

• Safe Routes to School

• Senior falls prevention

• Tobacco use prevention

• Violence prevention

• Worksite wellness

• Groundwater protection, enforcement, and permits

• Subsurface sewage disposal system (SSDS) file search form

• Restaurant and grocery store inspections and permitting

• Online food safety training and certification

• Swimming pools, hotels, tattoo and piercing studios, schools and child care inspections and permitting

• Vector control

• Rabies vaccination certificates

• Compile valid and reliable data pertaining to the health status of the Knox County population

• Infectious and notifiable diseases outbreak investigations

• Chronic diseases data collection, interpretation and dissemination

• Non-judgmental access to alcohol/drug detox and treatment services

• Overdose prevention and referrals to harm reduction resources

• Client-centered relapse prevention support

Evidence-based early childhood home visiting model that provides services to pregnant women and families with children from birth through kindergarten.

• Grow parent knowledge of early childhood development

• Provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues

• Increasing children’s school readiness and success

• Help reduce Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

• All4Knox community initiative to address substance misuse

• Overdose Fatality Review

• Substance misuse outreach and education

• Adult and childhood vaccines

• Immunizations for travel outside the U.S. (Appointment only)

• Newborn screening tests as needed

(Walk-in availability for immunizations and newborn screenings.)

• Birth certificates for births anywhere in Tennessee; Fee: $15

• Death certificates for deaths anywhere in Tennessee; Fee: $15

865-215-5016 (Appointments)  makemywicappointment@knoxcounty.org WIC serves pregnant women, breastfeeding women up to 1 year postpartum, non-breastfeeding women up to 6 months postpartum, infants and children up to age 5.

• Nutrition education

• Breastfeeding support

• Food benefits

• Family planning and pregnancy testing

• Well Woman Care (including breast and cervical cancer screenings)

• By appointment only (Walk-ins for birth control pill refills and follow-up Depo injections welcome.)