Healthy Families Houston

A five-year prevention plan

The Healthy Families Houston program is a comprehensive approach designed to strengthen at-risk families through long-term, home-based relationships. Originally piloted in Hawaii, it has been implemented across the United States over the past 20 years. Our organization introduced the program, under the auspices of Prevent Child Abuse America and the Healthy Families America initiative, in 1992 and was among the first 14 in the nation to introduce this model. 

A family may participate in the program for up to five years, beginning in the months prior to childbirth or upon the birth of a new child.

The program is designed to:

• Nurture a child’s comprehensive developmental needs during the critical earliest years
• Ensure consistent and appropriate medical care for the child and family
• Foster increasing self-sufficiency for the family
• Remove risk of child abuse and neglect.