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What is Healthy Families?

Healthy Families provides home visiting services to first-time teen parents for the first 3 years of their child's life. Home visitors build relationships with families, provide them with information about parenting and child development, and help them connect with other resources in their community. They work together with parents to identify family strengths, needs and goals and develop a service plan that is tailor-made for that child and family.

We also provide:

Referrals: To services in your community such as WIC, public assistance, pre- and post-natal care, vocational training, education support, etc.
Information: On all aspects of pregnancy, parenting and teen-related issues.
Support Services: Case management, peer support and parenting groups, individual and family counseling.
Pregnancy and Parenting Support Education Groups: Conducted in area schools and in the community for young moms, dads, and their children.

We strive to enhance family functioning by:

• Building trusting, nurturing relationships

• Teaching problem solving skills  Improving the family's support system

• Promoting positive mother, father, and child relationships

• Promoting healthy child growth and development

Who is Eligible?

All pregnant and parenting individuals under the age of 21 whose infant is under 1 year old (at the time of enrollment) are eligible for Healthy Families.  In addition, you must live in one of the towns served by either Blue Hills Healthy Families/Early Head Start, Cape Cod Healthy Families Early Childbearing Programs, or Greater Brockton Healthy Families.  To see if your town is served, click on "Choose Your Location" from the menu above.

A Home Visitor Can Help You:

 Healthy Families MA is an initiative
funded by Children's Trust Fund.

For more info, please click on the image above.

• Apply for medical insurance
• Find a doctor for your family
• Obtain pregnancy and childbirth education
• Learn different and nurturing ways to care for your baby
• Feel comfortable caring for your infant

• Learn how your child grows
• Keep your home safe
• Prepare for a new baby
• Deal with stress
• Find and access different services
• Build family directed goals based on your strengths