Child Health Day, 2018

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 193 (Thursday, October 4, 2018)]

[Presidential Documents]

[Pages 50253-50254]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

[FR Doc No: 2018-21820]

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Proclamation 9797 of September 28, 2018

Child Health Day, 2018

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

On Child Health Day, we renew our commitment to

ensuring the health and well-being of our young people,

who are the future of our great country. All children

deserve to grow up in loving homes with parents or

guardians who are dedicated to empowering them to live

healthy, safe, and successful lives.

My Administration is actively working to create

environments in which families can grow stronger and

children can realize their full potential. Earlier this

year, I signed into law a 5-year authorization of the

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting

Program, which helps at-risk families get off to a

better and healthier start with evidence-based home

visiting programs. Home visiting programs help prevent

child abuse and neglect, support positive parenting,

improve maternal and child health, and promote child

development and school readiness

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Program, which helps at-risk families get off to a

better and healthier start with evidence-based home

visiting programs. Home visiting programs help prevent

child abuse and neglect, support positive parenting,

improve maternal and child health, and promote child

development and school readiness. Additionally, through

the Be Best initiative, led by First Lady Melania

Trump, we are helping to address some of the most

prevalent challenges facing children, including

destructive online habits, bullying, mental health, and

alcohol and drug abuse. Further, we are strengthening

our public health and safety response to the opioid

crisis. One of the many tragic consequences of opioid

addiction is neonatal abstinence syndrome, which poses

risks to the long-term health of children.

Across our country, more than 15,000 children are

diagnosed with pediatric cancer each year. Survival

rates for most childhood cancers have improved in

recent decades, but serious challenges remain. Children

who survive cancer frequently struggle with significant

complications later in life. For this reason, I signed

into law the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment,

Access, and Research Act of 2018, which will provide

more funding to research childhood cancers, explore

effective treatments, and help enhance the quality of

long-term care for children after active treatment and

into remission.

son, I signed

into law the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment,

Access, and Research Act of 2018, which will provide

more funding to research childhood cancers, explore

effective treatments, and help enhance the quality of

long-term care for children after active treatment and

into remission.

Every child, both born and unborn, possesses inherent

dignity. Today, let us rededicate ourselves to our

shared goal of building a better future for each one of

them. As parents and role models, we have a moral

responsibility to nurture and care for our most

vulnerable population. Together, we can ensure that our

children are healthy, and grow up to be happy and

productive adults.

The Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 18,

1928, as amended (36 U.S.C. 105), has called for the

designation of the first Monday in October as Child

Health Day and has requested that the President issue a

proclamation in observance of this day.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the

United States of America, by virtue of the authority

vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the

United States, do hereby proclaim Monday, October 1,

2018, as Child Health Day. I call upon families, child

health professionals, faith-based and community

organizations, and governments to help ensure that

America's children stay safe and healthy.

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sted in me by the Constitution and the laws of the

United States, do hereby proclaim Monday, October 1,

2018, as Child Health Day. I call upon families, child

health professionals, faith-based and community

organizations, and governments to help ensure that

America's children stay safe and healthy.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this

twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord

two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the

United States of America the two hundred and forty-

third.

(Presidential Sig.)

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