Organization:
United Community
United Community's Healthy Families (HF) program is an intensive, evidence-based home visiting program that successfully prevents child abuse and neglect in high-risk families. Parents receive home-based parenting education, health information, community support and school readiness from pregnancy until the child reaches age three.
Families who graduate from the HF program have healthier children and better parent-child interactions. Less than 1% of these families are found to later abuse their child. The program has four goals:
1. Promote positive parenting
2. Improve child health and development
3. Promote school readiness
4. Prevent child abuse and neglect
Healthy Families provides two main types of services: Family Assessment and Home Visits. A Family Resource Specialist conducts an initial Family Assessment based on the Kempe Family Stress Checklist to determine eligibility for the program as well as need for other services within the community. Depending on indicated need, the Resource Specialist provides parents with referrals to community resources. If admitted into the program, Family Support Workers provide regular Home Visits to at-risk families beginning during pregnancy and until child reaches the age of three years.
Home Visiting Services:
Family Goal Planning: families develop family goal plans, which are updated regularly according to family needs.
Parenting Education: Parents learn about positive family interaction from the Parents as Teachers curriculum, which is activity-based and builds upon parents’ growing knowledge of child development.
Health Education: Parents get information on healthcare, family planning, immunizations, and other resources.
Developmental Screenings: Children receive regular developmental screenings and are referred to early intervention if delays are discovered.
School Readiness Activities: Children gain early literacy through literacy-based playgroups and activities. Depending on funding, children receive new books through partnerships with programs like The Reading Connection and Reading Is Fundamental.
Referrals: Families are referred to other community resources as needed.
Application: Call for more information about joining the program.
Schedules
Tuesday
:
11:00AM - 7:00PM
Tuesday
:
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Wednesday - Friday
:
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Monday
:
8:00AM - 4:00PM
Wed-Fri
:
8:00AM - 4:00PM
Monday
:
1:00PM - 3:00PM
Monday - Friday
:
9:00AM - 5:30PM
