Healthy Start Services

Care Coordination:

• Developing a caring and trusting relationship
• Tracking the client's receipt of services
• Advocating on behalf of the client and family for needed services
• Ongoing systematic assessment of client or family assets, risks, concerns and priorities
• Providing anticipatory guidance and health promotion information, and reinforcing the health care regimen, at each contact
• Empowering the client and family towards self-sufficiency and economic stability
• Promoting employability and life management skills
• Developing and updating a family support plan
• Providing referrals and following up on referrals
• Evaluating the client's level of care
• Prioritizing, Planning and Evaluating, in conjunction with the family, the actions required to address their concerns, risks and priorities
• Monitoring progress of services
• Transition of ongoing care coordination to other providers, when appropriate
• Maintaining ongoing communication with other providers, especially the prenatal and child health care provider (obtain proper releases for sharing of information if referral to Healthy Start was not from prenatal or child health care provider)

Education:

The Following is FREE for you and your family...

• Parenting Education and Support
• Breastfeeding Education and Counseling
• Interconception Education and Counseling
• Smoking Cessation Education and Support