Strong & Healthy Families

We provide child care training and nurse-home visits that improve clients' employment potential and build healthy, stable and self-sufficient families.

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• In the classroom, professional health educators provide clients with lessons essential to future work in the child care field:
  • Fetal and child development
  • Infectious disease prevention
  • Child abuse prevention
  • Financial management
  • Goal setting
  • Problem solving
• In home visits, public health nurses help clients to apply their classroom lessons to practical situations involving their own children and families.
• Classroom instruction and home visits begin with women who are pregnant or up to 2 months after giving birth. Home visits can continue until the child is 2 years old.
• Clients receive a certificate of participation upon completion of the eight-week classroom training program that may serve as a foundation in obtaining employment in the child care field.
• This program is modeled after nurse-home visitation programs that have yielded measurable, positive results.
• This program is administered by El Paso County Public Health and is funded by the El Paso County Department of Human Services, using Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) dollars.

How Do Mothers Enroll in Strong and Healthy Families?

• To be considered for participation, you must be receiving TANF. To see if you are eligible for TANF, visit the Department of Human Services Web site, the Colorado Peak Web site, or apply in person at 17 N. Spruce St., Colorado Springs. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Appointments Required

Related Information

• Strong and Healthy Families Flyer