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About Us: Overview |
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Healthy Families America is a national program model designed to help expectant and new parents get their children off to a healthy start. Families participate voluntarily in the program and receive home visiting and referrals from trained staff. By providing services to overburdened families, Healthy Families America fits into the continuum of services provided to families in many communities.
The program was launched in 1992 by Prevent Child Abuse America (formerly known as the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse) in partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities and was designed to promote positive parenting, enhance child health and development and prevent child abuse and neglect. The Freddie Mac Foundation has also been instrumental in supporting ongoing development of the program.
Initially, Healthy Families America drew largely from existing research, knowledge and experiences of the Hawaii Healthy Start program. Healthy Families America is built on a set of 12 research-based critical elements that provide a benchmark in which quality is measured. Learn more about evidence-based rationale for the critical elements. As Healthy Families America has continued to evolve, we have incorporated examples of good practice from evaluations of a growing number of communities and prevention models. To date, Healthy Families America exists in over 430 communities in the United States and Canada. 90% of all the families who are invited to participate in the program accept services.
For a two-page downloadable flyer called Healthy Families America Program Facts and Features, click here. |
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