Healthy Families
Working together for our children's future
Healthy Families Home Visitation
Healthy Families is a voluntary long term (3-5 years) home visitation program which provides services to pregnant women and first time parenting families. Services can be started prenatally or before the baby turns 4 months old.
What can Healthy Families do for Me?
Healthy Families can provide new families with information in the areas of prenatal care, healthy child growth and development, positive ways to interact with your baby, enhancing family functioning, and improving support systems.
What can Healthy Families do for my baby?
Your Family Visitor will show you ways to care for your new baby and answer any questions you may have. They will also provide you with information about child development and how to have positive interactions between you and your child.
Home Visitors:
- Prenatal support
- Provide information and help you develop parenting skills.
- Provide encouragement and support.
- Are flexible, honest and sensitive to your needs.
- Work with your needs and your strengths.
- Help you work towards your goals and achieve your dreams.
- Referrals.
Program Goals and Outcomes
- Optimal healthy growth and development of very young children.
- Children are free from abuse and neglect.
- Increased support to parents with young children.
- Increased community capacity to deliver effective home visitation programs and other services.
Who we serve:
Aboriginal people in the West-end, South-end and surrounding areas in Edmonton. The program offers FREE outings to the Edmonton Zoo, Fort Edmonton Park, Swimming and Picnics.
"What a child learns before the age of six lasts forever"
For more information on Healthy Families contact
Bent Arrow at (780) 481.3451
e-mail: baths@bentarrow.ca