Welcome to Blue Hills Healthy Families


What is Healthy Families? Healthy Families provides home visiting services to first-time teen parents for the first three years of their child’s life.

Home visitors build relationships with families, provide them with information about parenting and child development, and help them connect with other resources in their community.

Program home visitors and parents work together to identify family strengths, needs and goals and develop a service plan that is tailor-made for that child and family.
 

What services are provided?

  • Home visits
  • Developmental screenings
  • Parent-child groups
  • Service coordination
  • Information, referral & advocacy

What is the cost?

All services are provided at no cost to families. The program is voluntary and families participate in deciding the types and frequency of services that will work best for them.

Healthy Families can help you:  
 • Obtain pregnancy and childbirth information
• Develop loving and nurturing ways to care for your baby
• Learn different ways to discipline your child
• Feel confident caring for your infant
• Keep your home safe

• Learn how your child grows

• Set up for a new baby
• Shop wisely
• Budget your money
• Deal with stress
• Find and access available services 		 

How do families sign up?

Pregnant and new teen parents should call the Healthy Families’ Weymouth office at 781-335-1455

Who is eligible?

All pregnant and new teen parents who are under the age of 21, expecting or with babies less than 1 year old living in the following communities:

  • Braintree
  • Canton
  • Dedham
  • Dover
  • Milton
  • Norwood
  • Quincy
  • Randolph
  • Sharon
  • Westwood
  • Weymouth
All Services are confidential and free of charge.


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