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We’re the national home visiting program focused on early childhood relational health – partnering with you to help the children in your life thrive.
What is relational health?
Why families choose HFA
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HFA Mom
from Georgia
It’s not only somebody I can talk to and confide in, but somebody who helps me be a better mom… [I am] learning how to better empathize with my child and to better understand him and his signals and his signs.”
Nancy Gwin
HFA State Leader, Indiana
The model is set up so that everybody has some input in the process.  I have been with Healthy Families for 17 years. I started out as a home visitor… now I’ve moved up and am the director over several programs in our state, and throughout that entire process I have always felt like there are people who are interested in knowing what I think about the work, what works and what doesn’t.
Kathleen Strader
National Director, Healthy Families America
Everything we do as humans centers around relationships. Yet relationships don’t always come easy… being able to utilize strategies that bring out the essence of our most basic human need–the ability to relate to others in positive ways–is life-changing, for adults and children.
Raecine
HFA Mom from Kansas
He was a tiny baby—3 pounds, 15 ounces, but he was full term, and that was the scariest thing… [but I learned to] work with him where he needs to be, and to bond with him on that level, and that brings us closer together.
HFA Supervisor
I wanted to be sure that my work aligned with my love for community, early childhood, and prevention work [as well as] my lived experience as a parent in poverty in my hometown, and I have a dream job with HFA now! Knowing that the program is parent and family-led through the parallel process is part of my “why.”
HFA Parents
from Cincinnati, Ohio
Parenting does not come with a manual… you don’t always know what to do. You don’t always know the questions to ask. You don’t know if other people are going through it. So, Healthy Families brings you that comfort in knowing we are all going through this.
Tomeaka Jupiter
HFA Training & TA Manager, Former Program Manager
HFA really encourages us to focus on those “in the moment”, moments between home visitors and families – there’s not a prescribed curriculum or script that we should be using –  it really supports us with being able to be flexible.
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HFA Mom
from Georgia
Nancy Gwin
HFA State Leader, Indiana
Kathleen Strader
National Director, Healthy Families America
Raecine
HFA Mom from Kansas
HFA Supervisor
HFA Parents
from Cincinnati, Ohio
Tomeaka Jupiter
HFA Training & TA Manager, Former Program Manager
A relational health model
HFA embodies the cornerstones of healthy relationships. Once parents experience safety, predictability, comfort, and joy in a genuine way and in the context of a relationship with another, they are able to provide the same experience for their children.
Backed by strong evidence
HFA’s evidence is rigorous, with 40+ peer-reviewed published articles and 13+ randomized control trials by independent researchers.
Flexible to meet the unique needs of families and communities
Healthy Families was designed from the very beginning with flexibility in mind allowing every community the ability to tailor portions of the model to meet their needs and the needs of each family.
We embody the parallel process in our support of affiliates
Technical Assistance (TA) provided by the national office is collaborative, rather than directive and it is strength-based. National Office TA Specialists utilize the same values and reflective approach with sites that supervisors use with staff, and direct service staff use with families.
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70,000
Families involved with HFA each year
100,000
Children involved with HFA per year
32 years
since HFA was launched
600
Nearly 600 HFA affiliates
865,000
Home visits a year
38
States + DC + US Territories
Margaret, an HFA Parent, Travels to DC to Share at Congressional Briefing
“There are so many families that are like mine. We are hardworking and trying to make ends meet. We want to be the best parents we can be….With the right support we can do that, and I know other families can too.”
Eight Sites Accredited at June Panel Meeting
Panel members spent hours preparing for this meeting, each reviewing 4033 pages of documentation submitted by HFA sites, as well as 41 spreadsheets. The sites they reviewed represented a total of 510 families who are partnering with HFA in their local communities. And in the end, eight HFA sites were accredited! Wahoo! Each accreditation is a major celebration.
HFA Parents Meet with National Office Staff in Chicago
In 2023, parents from the Chicagoland area met together virtually in focus groups, discussing the myriad ways HFA can improve as a program. They met together over several months. For […]
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