Community Health & Administration
This facility, donated to the City by John Patee, was completed in 1909.
What is Patee Market?
Animal Control and Rescue falls under this City of St. Joe Department.
What is the Health Department?
The abbreviation for Women, Infants, and Children.
What is WIC?
The health department clinic is most widely known for this.
What are immunizations?
This activity involves temperature control, handling, sanitizing, labeling, storage, cross-contamination, properly working equipment, hygiene and more.
What are food establishment/restaurant inspections?
Two key components of Community Health.
What is outreach and education?
Incarcerated individuals at WRDCC teach dogs to walk nicely on a leash, greet people without jumping or mouthing, crate & potty training, and basic commands like sit, stay, lay, leave it, and wait.
What is the Puppies for Parole Program?
Women who are pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding; infants, and children up to their 5th birthday.
Who may qualify for WIC?
Most adult and childhood immunizations as recommended by the CDC, but not travel immunizations.
What types of immunizations does the health department clinic provide?
This City of St. Joseph Ordinance passed on April 8, 2014, and has been in effect since June 7, 2014, to protect people from the harmful effects of a specific product.
What is the Smoke-Free Indoor Air Workplaces and Public Ordinance?
This City of St. Joseph Health Department issues certified copies of birth and death records.
What are Vital Records/Administration?
Friends of the Animal Shelter.
Who are a group of volunteers that started in 2000 to help reduce the number of animals euthanized by increasing public awareness of adoptable animals the shelter receives and assisting staff with animal care?
This position in the WIC division helps mothers and babies develop a successful breastfeeding relationship.
What is a breastfeeding peer counselor?
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
What does the abbreviation CDC stand for?
Practitioners of this art are required to be licensed in the state of Missouri to ensure education, training and standards of hygiene are met and maintained by the artist as well as the establishment where they work.
Who is a tattoo artist?
The health department revenue primarily comes from taxes. During the current fiscal year, this category represents 51% of expected revenue, but in a typical year, we expect around 35% of our funding to come from these sources.
What are Grants and Contracts?
They respond to calls regarding stray dogs, animal bites, animal neglect or cruelty, exposure to wildlife, and deceased animals.
Who are Animal Control Officers?
The Department of Agriculture.
What is the federal government program that funds WIC?
This type of test is available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays only due to needing to be read after 48-72 hours. Some people need this for employment.
What is a Tuberculosis (TB) Skin Test?
This activity, which can help with the removal of dry yard waste, can be done during April and November.
What is Open Burning?
An individual can come to the health department and get this free product to save lives from deadly opioid overdoses.
What is Naloxone or Narcan?
Wallace, Fuzzywuzzy, Chowder, Toonie, Derk, and Carol.
What are the names of current adoptable dogs and cats at the Animal Shelter and Rescue?
Call the health department at 816-271-4636 or go online at https://health.mo.gov/living/families/wic/.
What are ways to see if you qualify and/or sign up for WIC?
Baby and Me Tobacco Free Program is offered to pregnant women who use this product during pregnancy.
What is Nicotine/Tobacco?
Specific foods can be prepared at home, without food safety training or kitchen inspection, for sale to the public Under this Missouri Revised Statue.
What is the Cottage Food Law?