Family Health Services
The Maternal Child and Health Department provides a variety of services to promote family health. Some of these services include:
Educational Classes
- Health
- Nutrition
- Oral health
- Parenting skills
Health Care Coordination to help ensure:
- Children are on track with immunizations
- Children are accessing well-child and dental exams
- Families have their health questions answers
- Families can navigate the health system
Parenting Skills Presentations:
- Who am I as a parent?
- Communicating with your spouse
- Family nutrition
- Obesity prevention
- Positive discipline
- Importance of family routines
- Setting limits
Parenting Support:
- Support groups for dads
- Case management with home visits
Partnering with Schools
- Case workers on site at schools
- Parenting, health education, and nutrition classes presented at schools
Promoting Literacy
- Providers give a parents a 'prescription for reading' at their child's well-child exams
- Providers give the child a free book to encourage literacy