Description

Provides intensive in-home family support services for at-risk first-time parents, beginning prenatally and continuing until the child is five years of age. The goals of the program are to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect through services designed to: improve maternal and child health, facilitate healthy child development, build constructive and positive parenting and assist parents with the assessment and identification of appropriate community resources. Healthy Families America is a national program model designed to help expectant and new parents get their children off to a healthy start. Families participate voluntarily in the program and receive home visiting and referrals from trained staff. The program has three goals: to promote positive parenting, to encourage child health and development and to prevent child abuse and neglect.

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