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What is Healthy Families
Wakulla?
We are a community-based family
support service that helps families with newborn babies.
The program emphasizes prevention and intervention to help
babies and their caregivers become healthy, contributing
members of our community. |
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Who can be part of Healthy
Families?
The program is
offered to families who are expecting a baby or have a newborn
under the age of two weeks. |
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Why is the program
needed?
All parents
want to be the best parents they can be. However, some
families may find themselves overwhelmed by the responsibility
that comes with the birth of a new child. Too often, our
community's human service programs are unable to completely
respond to the needs of these families. Families that
fall through the cracks may be unable to gain access to these
services because they don't know what's available, lack of
transportation or earn an income slightly above the
eligibility requirements of other programs. The result
is a great amount of stress on their family life, and
unfortunately, the children can be adversely
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Our
Mission
The mission
of Healthy Families Wakulla is to empower families so their
goals can be defined and met.
- We will
help to strengthen the
family system by promoting
healthy parent-child interaction
- We will
help parents enhance the healthy growth and
development of their own children by providing
information and periodic
developmental screenings
- We will
help families become
independent, contributing
members of our community
by enhancing access to
needed services and community resources
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What else can Healthy
Families Wakulla do to help?
Healthy Families Wakulla works with families to
develop a personalized plan to increase parenting skills and
ensure a successful relationship with the newborn.
Participation is voluntary and free. Healthy Families
Wakulla:
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provides home-based support services to
families of newborns in Wakulla County
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promotes positive parenting through
resource information and parent education enhances
parent-child interaction
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enhances the child's growth and advancement
by informing parents about nutrition and child
development and by promoting immunizations
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stresses the importance of ongoing routine
health supervision and conducts periodic developmental
screenings
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ensures that families receive the health,
education and support services they need
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provides support and information to fathers
and helps them realize how important it is to be an
active parent for their children
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48 Oak Street
Crawfordville, FL
32327
(850) 926-0400 |
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