The Health Department serves as the coordinator of community service experiences and the school facilitates both classroom instruction and service learning. Second Step Second Step helps children change the attitudes and behaviors that contribute to violence. The curriculum teaches social and emotional skills such as empathy, impulse control and anger management to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children and increase their level of social competence. Current research links academic success with these skills. Audiovisual and Resource Lending Library Environmental Health Services Environmental and consumer protection programs for food service and public facilities, general sanitation, and on-site sewage disposal systems .
Environmentalists are responsible for a variety of law-mandated inspections.
They have the primary responsibility for preventing foodborne illness in the retail food sector. Through the proper application of existing laws and regulations, they endeavor to practice prevention by licensing, routinely inspecting and responding to consumer complaints against food establishments within the Health District. Food manufacturing inspections are done on bakeries, bottling plants, distilleries, food manufacturing plants, food storage warehouses, grain storage elevators, and vending machines. Environmentalists conduct investigations related to public health nuisances such as failing septic systems, rodent harborage and vectors, as well as foodborne illnesses. When requested, the testing of cisterns, wells and springs in residential homes is done.