We offer early childhood intervention services through our Healthy Families Durham program. This is an intensive home visiting program designed to reduce child abuse, improve parent/child interaction, and increase parenting skills. Healthy Families Durham provides in-home services to clients who are pregnant, or parenting infants or young children, in an effort to prevent child abuse and neglect in families with multiple stressors. The “Parents as Teachers” curriculum is delivered in the home for up to three years to enhance child development, health, safety, and parent/child relationships. Immunizations and well child care visits are monitored; developmental screenings are conducted every six months. Family Support Workers also provide families with case management services to connect them to appropriate community resources. An additional service has been added for families who do not require the traditional home visiting program. This new service uses the Partners for a Healthy Baby curriculum and serves families in the home for up to one year.

Healthy Families Durham, in collaboration with Welcome Baby, is now offering The Incredible Years parenting program. The Incredible Years is a parent education group that lasts 14 weeks for parents of children age 2-5 years. This program covers interactive play with children and praise techniques, nonviolent discipline techniques, logical consequences, and problem solving. Numerous studies including randomized control-group trials have found The Incredible Years to be effective for promoting positive parent interactions with children, strengthening children's emotional, social, and self-regulation competence, and reducing behavior problems in both prevention and clinic populations. The groups will begin in the spring of 2008 and will eventually be offered in both Spanish and English. Read More.

Partnerships

• Durham Family Initiative (home visiting evaluation)
• Welcome Baby (The Incredible Years)
• Durham County Health Department (Child Service Coordination)

Funding Supporters

• Durham's Partnership for Children, a Smart Start Initiative www.dpfc.net.
• Roblee Foundation
• Children’s Trust Fund
• United Way of the Greater Triangle www.unitedwaytriangle.org.
• Durham County Government
• The Duke Endowment