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You are your baby’s first and most important teacher. Knowing what to expect at each age makes parenting easier and even fun. Your Healthy Start Home Visitor will share information with you about your baby’s growth and development.
Healthy Start is a program that:
• Provides you weekly visits from a friendly Home Visitor in the privacy of your own home.
• Helps you learn more ways to cope with life’s ups and downs in a supportive and encouraging way.
• Supports you as a parent.
• Provides you opportunities to be a part of a group of other moms with similar life situations.
Your Healthy Start Home Visitor:
• Provides you access to the services offered at Family Service of the Piedmont, including free, confidential money management help.
• Helps you reach your goals by helping you find the community resources to meet your needs.
• Provides you the encouragement for learning to be the best parent you can be.
Your Healthy Start Home Visitor will:
• Listen to you.
• Offer support and understanding.
• Offer information and suggestions when you ask for it.
• Encourage you.
If you’d like to know more about Healthy Start, contact 882-8992 or 273-1552
1. The Healthy Start Program serves ALL of Guilford County and is designed for early intervention and prevention of child abuse and neglect.
2. ELIGIBLE families must include a pregnant mother or have a child 0-18 months of age.
3. SERVICES are FREE.
4. Home visitors make weekly visits, more if needed, and help program participants set goals: support them in attaining their goals; encourage their development and enhancement of parenting skills; and model appropriate behaviors.
5. Through the home visitors, program participants have access to services provided by
Family Service of the Piedmont, such as.
• substance abuse assessment
• money management counseling (budgeting, education for home ownership, debt management, etc.)
• therapeutic groups, for example, Circle of Hope for incest
survivors, and parent groups
• family counseling
• victim advocacy
6. Home visitors in cooperation with the Health Department, DSS, Mental Health, etc. can encourage and support follow-through on the program participants’ various service plans.
7. To help clients reach their goals, home visitors can connect program participants with appropriate community resources.
HIGH POINT OFFICE
Healthy Start Program
401 Taylor Avenue
High Point, 27261
PH: 336-882-8992
FAX: 336-885-7162
GREENSBORO OFFICE
Healthy Start Program
315 E. Washington St.
Greensboro, NC 27401
PH: 336-387-6161
FAX: 336-387-9167
Referrals may be directed to either office by phone or by mail. 
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