Healthy Families New York
Prevent Child Abuse New York provides training and advocacy services for Healthy Families New York (HFNY), a voluntary home visiting program for high-risk families of infants.

In 1993, Prevent Child Abuse New York spearheaded the establishment of the Healthy Families New York (HFNY) program. We continue to work to assure the program becomes available to families throughout the state.

Healthy Families New York is a comprehensive, voluntary home visiting service that supports healthy child development and parenting practices, and prevents child abuse, from the prenatal period until a child is 3 to 5 years old. The HFNY Home Visiting Program now includes 28 HFNY sites in communities all across New York, whose work is coordinated by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.

Prevent Child Abuse New York’s HFNY Training and Resource Center provides staff training, quality assurance assistance and resources for all HFNY sites in the state.

We work with the HFNY Home Visiting Council to plan more stable, diversified and expansive funding for HFNY, to enable growth of the program to all eligible parents in the state.

NYS Office of Children and Family Services announces $4.4 million for Healthy Families New York.

Visit www.healthyfamiliesnewyork.org for more information.

More information about HFNY:

• Summary of program impacts after one year of home visiting
  
• Full report: Evaluation of Healthy Families New York: First Year Program Impacts (PDF 481k).
  
• Full report: Healthy Families New York Randomized Trial: Impacts on Parenting After the First Two Years (PDF; will open in a new window)

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