Healthy Families Lee County

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.

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Parent Organization: Lee County Health Department

Location Information

Statewide

Phone (319) 372-5225


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.

Eligibility:

  • Prenatal families or families with newborns who reside in Lee County 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 or call for enrollment:

(319)372-5225 or (800)458-6672
mpark@leecountyiowa.gov

Payment:

No cost to participant.

Handicap Accessible: No

Appointment Needed: No


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

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