Healthy Families Niagara is a comprehensive, home-based services program designed to help “at risk” parents meet the challenges of parenting young children and to ensure healthy child development.  A family can continue in the program until the child is five years of age or enters Headstart.  Healthy Families services are available to residents of Niagara County .

Who is eligible?

Single and two parent families who are currently expecting or the parents of a newborn less than three months old are screened by a Family Assessment Worker to determine eligibility.

The goal of Healthy Families Niagara is to:

• Ensure that the family’s basic needs are met.
• Promote a healthy pregnancy, labor and delivery.
• Enhance the parents' understanding of healthy child growth and development.
• Strengthen the parent-child relationship.
• Improve parental skills to optimize the home environment.
• Improve the family support system through linkages with other community resources.
• Increase the family’s ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocate for themselves and their children.

For more information or to see if you are eligible for Healthy Families Niagara , Call 278-1605.