Program Overview 

Healthy Families Southern Maryland is nationally accredited by  Healthy Families America. The program supports parents by sending professionally trained staff to visit with families in their home once a week for an hour. The  Family Support Specialist gets to know each family and uses child development curriculum and links to community resources to help parents bond with their baby, find medical care, housing, childcare, and so much more. Healthy Families is convenient, free, and can support you throughout your pregnancy up until your child turns five years old! Se habla Español!

​

​

EACH WEEK – a professionally trained Family Support Specialist will visit with you in your home to:

​

• Provide information about pregnancy and childbirth.

• Share information about community resources and services.

• Help you recognize and respond to your baby’s changing needs.

• Show you how to make your home “baby safe.”

• Inform you on what to expect as your baby grows.

• Educate you about your baby’s developmental stages to ensure he or she enters school ready to learn.

• Offer support and encouragement throughout this new experience.

• Discuss ways to keep both parents involved in your baby’s well-being.

​

​