Healthy Families

Healthy Families is an intensive home visiting program for pregnant and parenting teenagers. The goals of the program are to prevent child abuse and neglect, promote healthy development, encourage academic achievement and self-sufficiency, and to prevent repeat teen pregnancies. Home visitors promote the development of effective parenting skills through education on prenatal care, labor and delivery, child development, parenting, nutrition, and birth control. Participants remain in the program until the child turns three years of age.