Program Name: Healthy Families
Marion County I
55 South State Ave., Suite 340
Indianapolis, IN 46201
Appointments: 317-957-2600
Healthy Families Indiana is a voluntary home visitation program designed to promote healthy families and healthy children through a variety of services including child development, access to health care and parent education. Healthy Families Indiana is a program designed to help you strengthen your family and provide healthy growth and development for your children.
Beliefs:
• Parents are the best authority on determining their family’s needs.
• All families have strengths which need to be recognized.
• Every child should reach his or her potential.
• Parents are responsible for their children.
• Available services should begin early to support the needs of the family.
Services:
• Initiate services prenatally or postnatal continuing up to the age of three.
• Partner with families to support, enhance, and strengthen their well being.
• Help all families reach their highest potential.
• Provide services tailored to individual needs and goals.
• Offer trained family support worker in the home weekly, or as appropriate, to model, educate, and provide proven research-driven parenting information.
• Connect families to appropriate community resources and service organizations based on their expressed needs and concerns.
• Assist families to access appropriate health care.