Community Health Partners offers the Healthy Families Program to parent(s) who are expecting a baby or have a newborn infant. Healthy Families is nationally accredited by Healthy Families America. It is a free, voluntary, culturally humble program that focuses on family strengths and healthy parent child interaction and bonding. The goals of the Healthy Families Program are safe and healthy children and families, empowered parents, and school ready children. Priority for service is given to single parents, first-time parents, and teen parents.
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Location Information
Statewide
Community Health Partners offers the Healthy Families Program to parent(s) who are expecting a baby or have a newborn infant. Healthy Families is nationally accredited by Healthy Families America. It is a free, voluntary, culturally humble program that focuses on family strengths and healthy parent child interaction and bonding. The goals of the Healthy Families Program are safe and healthy children and families, empowered parents, and school ready children. Priority for service is given to single parents, first-time parents, and teen parents.
Eligibility:
- Prenatal families or families with newborns may be eligible for HOPES services.
- A Family Support Worker may work with a family until a child reaches five years of age or until the family no longer request services.
Intake Process:
Email for further steps/information and enrollment: melissa.tucker@lsiowa.org
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Payment:
No cost to participant.
Handicap Accessible: No
Appointment Needed: No
Website: Visit Website
Program: Healthy Families America (HOPES-HFI)
Healthy Opportunities for Parents to Experience Success – Healthy Families Iowa (HOPES-HFI) follows the national Healthy Families America evidence-based program model. HOPES-HFI is a home visiting program and serves families with young children. The program goals are to promote child health and development, improve family relationships, and encourage positive parenting and family relationships.
Services:
- Advocacy and linking families to appropriate community services.
- Teach, demonstrate, and coach parents on how to care for their child.
- Cultivate and strengthen nurturing parent-child relationships.
- Teach and model appropriate parent behavior and methods of discipline.
- Provide prenatal information and support.
Eligibility:
Families must enroll while pregnant or at the birth of their child. Parents of children birth through age 3-5.
Intake Process:
Call for information.
Handicap Accessible: No
Appointment Needed: No
Website: Visit Website