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Dorchester
Family Connections
Dorchester Family Connections
Contact Us: Lyndsey Firneno, Program Coordinator (e-mail:lfirneno@dCARES.org)
The goals of Dorchester Family Connections are:
- Enhance family functioning
- Promote positive parent-child interactions through
- Promote healthy childhood growth and development
- Promote healthy birth outcomes
- Prevent child abuse and neglect
- Promote maximum parental educational attainment and economic
self sufficiency
- Reduce repeat teen pregnancies.
Our goals are accomplished through programs that include a broad
range of home visiting and center-based services including outreach
and linkage to schools and skills training, child care, counseling,
health and parenting education, access to health and mental
health services, service coordination, and infant/child developmental
screening.
Core service elements include parenting education and support,
infant/toddler developmental screening, health assessment and
monitoring, health promotion and anticipatory guidance, and
service coordination.
Healthy families program
Healthy Families is a voluntary, universally accessible home
visiting service for all first time parents under the age of
20, in Massachusetts. The program, which is funded by the Massachusetts
Children's Trust Fund, provides comprehensive, prevention-oriented
home visiting services for pregnant and parenting adolescents
and their families.
Firststeps program
The FIRSTSteps program, funded through the Department of Public
Health, provides comprehensive home visiting services for families
with children from pregnancy to age 3 in which there are social
and environmental risk factors associated with poor pregnancy
outcomes, developmental delay, and child abuse and neglect.
Families eligible for FIRSTSteps have one or more defined characteristics
or conditions in their lives that may increase their vulnerability
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