Anna Jarvis of West Virginia (History.com5.2018) in 1868 developed the Mother’s Friendship Day. This group of mothers organized to work with soldiers, both union and confederate, to help bring about reconciliation after the civil war. In 1908, Anna Jarvis’s daughter, Anna Reeves Jarvis initiated a letter-writing campaign to have Mother’s Day become an official holiday. In 1910 West Virginia became the first state to recognize the holiday. By 1914 Mother’s Day became an official U.S. holiday. However, the idea of…..
Located inside the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the Office of Women’s Health (OWH). This agency recommends that everyone check out the Surgeon General’s Office (SGO) to examine the Family Health Portrait. This program was established in 2016 and is successful in developing individual, web-based programs for generational families who want to track and predict their health risk and assist them in making screening and treatment decisions about their health and the future conditions of their yet-unborn…..