Helping Families Raise Healthy Children

The initiative’s plan is to:

• Improve the identification of families dealing with the related and often co-occurring issues of caregiver depression and early childhood developmental delays by screening for parental depression and assessing family functioning in the early intervention system
• Enhance access to supports and services for families with or at risk for caregiver depression and early childhood developmental delays by establishing a cross-system referral process
• Better serve at-risk families by providing integrated, family-centered services that address the needs of both primary caregivers and young children in the context of the parent-child relationship

Helping Families Raise Healthy Children, a Community Care Behavioral Health Organization project, is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Highmark Foundation, UPMC Health Plan, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Fine Foundation, FISA Foundation, and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation with additional support arranged through the assistance of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.