Healthy Families Program
Spaulding for Children is the fiduciary and grant recipient for the Spaulding for Children Healthy Families Program funded by the Michigan Children’s Trust Fund and The Skillman Foundation.
The Healthy Families Program provides home visitations, family support services, child development screenings, referrals, parenting education workshops and linkages with community resources for approximately 200 low income families in Wayne and Macomb counties. These services are provided to families that reside in
the cities of
Detroit, Hamtramck, or Highland Park
in Wayne County and Macomb County who are pregnant; have at least one child who is between birth and 47 months of age; and have no substantiated case of abuse or neglect filed with the Michigan Department of Human Services.
The goals of service are to assist parents in acquiring the knowledge, skills and resources to ensure that: they receive appropriate prenatal care; children meet age appropriate developmental milestones; children receive timely immunizations and well child care; they are effective parents; and they do not abuse or neglect their children.
In addition to the home visitation services offered, the Healthy Families Program hosts ongoing trainings in the Nurturing Parent and the Parenting with Love & Logic curriculums, Empowering Families Conferences are held twice annually in the spring and fall, as well as sponsoring the Circle of Friends Parent Support Group and the Mother’s on a Mission (M.O.M.) Teen Parent Support Group.
Spaulding collaborates with local service providers in Wayne County to offer group parenting classes. In Macomb county, Judson Center-Warren provides group parenting classes. The Spaulding Macomb grant also partners with the Turning Point Domestic Violence Center.
Check our calendar for upcoming events, or click on the links below to learn more!
For more information, contact Kelly E. Baber, Program Director at 248-443-0300 or at kbaber@spaulding.org
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