Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Health and Human Services Name of student Course Instructor Institution Date due The three divisions in the Department of Human and Health Services discussed herein are; Administration for Children and Families, Food and Drug Administration and Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. To begin with, Administration for Children and Families deals with children, families, individuals and communities and has programs that promote them socially and economically. They also deal with vulnerable groups and have programs such as education for the youth. They are taught behavior change that could prevent HIV/AIDS. Programs aimed at homeless youth, teen pregnancy prevention and family violence are incorporated. Food and Drug Administration is the division mandated with the role of ensuring safety of medicines, vaccines, food, veterinary drugs and other products that could harm people’s health by ingestion or application (Jones &Bartlett 2011). They also give ...