Crisis Nursery

Healthy Families, a Southwest Human Development partnership, is a home based, voluntary program designed to strengthen families who could be at risk of abuse or neglect during pregnancy and the first five years of a child's life.

Highly trained family support specialists visit families regularly in their own home to work on promoting child health and development, enhancing parent/child interaction and preventing child abuse.

Families receive services one of two ways:

• After screening and interview once a woman is pregnant or in the hospital soon after her baby is born.
• Families receive a community referral if their infant is less than three months old.
  

Healthy Families Arizona services include:

• linking families with community services, health care, child care, and housing
• encouraging self-sufficiency through education and employment
• supporting effective parent-child interactions
• providing child development, nutrition, and safety education
• teaching appropriate parent-child interaction and discipline
• promoting child development, referrals for screening if delayed
• providing emotional support and encouragement to parents

Healthy Families is one of the most rigorously evaluated programs in Arizona. Results of these evaluations consistently show that 97.4% of the high-risk families served did not have a substantiated report of child abuse or neglect.