Healthy Families
The vision of Healthy Families (HFG) is for all children to receive nurturing care from their family essential to leading a healthy and productive life. All Healthy Families programs in Georgia are nationally accredited, evidence-based home visiting programs. Services are designed to strengthen families beginning prenatally up to the age of 5 years of a child’s life when vital early brain development occurs. Well trained, experienced Family Support Workers provide valuable education, community resources, and tangible support all children and families need to thrive.
The mission of Healthy Families Georgia is to promote child well-being and prevent the abuse and neglect of our children through the provision of quality, long-term, intensive home visitation services. The program is designed to strengthen nurturing parent-child relationships, promote healthy childhood growth and development and enhance family functioning.
HFA aims to
- reduce child maltreatment;
- improve parent-child interactions and children’s social-emotional well-being;
- increase school readiness;
- promote child physical health and development;
- promote positive parenting;
- promote family self-sufficiency;
- increase access to primary care medical services and community services; and
- decrease child injuries and emergency department use.
A special thanks to the Athens Area Diaper Bank for providing over 30,000 diapers to our Healthy Families participants a year!
