Healthy and Fair Start
Any Baby Can provides parents with coaching and support, as well as group events to create a safe, stable and nurturing home for children to thrive.
Engaging Parents in Their Child’s Development
The first few years of a child’s life are important years that shape their future. Any Baby Can empowers parents in their child’s growth and progress, promoting optimal early development.
Engaging Parents in Their Child’s Development
The first few years of a child’s life are important years that shape their future. Any Baby Can empowers parents in their child’s growth and progress, promoting optimal early development.
Engaging Parents in Their Child’s Development
The first few years of a child’s life are important years that shape their future. Any Baby Can empowers parents in their child’s growth and progress, promoting optimal early development.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Many milestones happen during a child’s first five years of life: first tooth, first steps, first words, first day of school. Every age brings about new opportunities as well as unique challenges.
Any Baby Can’s Healthy and Fair Start (HFS) program partners with parents to help their kids learn, grow and reach their full potential. We recognize that a parent is a child’s first and most important teacher. Our team facilitates interactions between the parent and child, promoting optimal early development, learning, health and safety of the child.
HFS uses a nationally-recognized model called Parents as Teachers, which focuses on creating stable and safe family environments, addressing developmental delays, increasing school readiness, and encouraging parental involvement in their school and community.
In addition to HFS, Any Baby Can also works with People’s Community Clinic on a program called Tandem that offers the same curriculum specifically for teen parents served by the Clinic.
WHAT IS A VISIT LIKE?
Our Parent Educators visit families in their homes once or twice each month. Visits have three core components designed to empower the parents in their child’s development.
The goals of these activities are to promote child development, strengthen the parent-child relationship, and clarify developmental expectations. Through each activity, the parent learns something new about their child’s cues and temperament, and reasons for their child’s behavior. We help parents see the world through the child’s eyes, which builds a nurturing relationship.
This is an opportunity for the parents to share their daily triumphs and challenges on practical parenting issues such as nutrition, safety, routines, sleep and discipline. The Parent Educator serves as a sounding board, providing tools and information to help parents make good, safe choices for the child.
Sometimes the issues parents face aren’t quite as tangible as helping our kids eat and sleep. Parents have an opportunity to talk with their Parent Educator about how to cope with stress, connect with others, improve the health of the entire family, budget for the future, and so much more. We work alongside parents to meet their goals, whether they are the child’s goals, family goals, or parents’ career and education goals.
STORIES FROM OUR CLIENTS
Any Baby Can clients share their experience with our Healthy and Fair Start program.
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Our team can connect you with a Parent Educator to help improve your parent-child relationship.
ANY BABY CAN IS A BLUE-RIBBON AFFILIATE OF PARENTS AS TEACHERS
