Healthy Beginnings

Enhanced Home Visiting Initiative

Building healthy children and healthy families.

Healthy Beginnings is an enhanced community home visiting program for families with children from birth to 3 years offered in partnership through Capital District Health and the Eastern Shore Family Resource Association. The choice to be in this program is yours, and you can stop at anytime. Your home visitor will visit you in your home or somewhere else that is safe and comfortable.

Your home visitor can:

listen to you
encourage you
share information with you about parenting and early child development
help you understand your child's behaviour
help you find what you need in your community

You choose:

how often your home visitor will come
what topics to discuss
who to include in the visits

What children learn as infants and toddlers will affect how they will do in school and later in life. Learn how the everyday things we do with our children help them grow and develop. Find out what is available in your community for families. Build confidence in the choices you make as a parent. Your home visitor can help you find the answers that work for your famly as every family is unique!

For more information please contact:

Julia Bostock DSW (Developmental Service Worker)
Healthy Beginnings Community Home Visitor
Eastern Shore Family Resource Association
827-1463

Public Health Services at one of the following locations:

Dartmouth/Halifax - 481-5800
Windsor - 798-2264
Head of Jeddore - 889-2143
Musquodoboit Valley - 384-2370
Sheet Harbour - 885-2470

Capital Health and the following Family Resource Centres in the Central Region of NS are partners in delivering services for this program: