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Healthy Families Arizona

Healthy Families Arizona

Healthy Families Arizona (HFAz) is designed to help expectant and new parents get their children off to a healthy start. Families are screened according to specific criteria and participate voluntarily in the program. Families that choose to participate receive home visits and referrals from trained staff. Program services are designed to strengthen families during the critical first years of a child’s life – the time when early brain development occurs, laying the foundation for a lifetime of memories, behaviors, and outcomes. Through its efforts to support and educate families, the program has shown to reduce incidences of child abuse and neglect, provide stability for at-risk families and has grown a new generation of healthy families in the state. Intensity of services is based on each family’s needs, beginning weekly and moving gradually to quarterly home visits as families become more self-sufficient. Healthy Families services may continue if needed until the child turns five years old.

Program Documents

HFAz is a voluntary home visitation program that serves pregnant women and families of newborns. A thorough program description is contained in the HFAz Brochure below.

  • HFAz Brochure (CSO-2107)
  • HFAz At-A-Glance
  • HFAz Program Map

Program Eligibility

If you are interested in services and meet the one of the following criteria listed below, then you or a provider can submit a referral to begin the process on your behalf:

  • You are pregnant and/or
  • You have a child that is age 3 months old or less at the time of the submitted referral

If you meet one or both of the criteria above, please apply below.

Apply for Healthy Families

Healthy Families AZ Referral

HFAz Referral

Sorry, you do not qualify

For eligibility questions, please email [email protected].

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By submission of this form, I/we authorize the Department of Child Safety (DCS) to release the above information on a need-to-know basis to Healthy Families AZ service providers. Submission of this form indicates the caregiver is aware that a Healthy Families AZ referral is being submitted and the caregiver agrees to be contacted from a designated Healthy Families service provider and/or the DCS Healthy Families AZ Coordinator.

Program Evaluation Reports

HFAz is an evidence based home visiting program that has proven to be highly effective based on over a decade of consistent annual program evaluations. The annual evaluation brings to light the positive impact that the HFAz program has on participant families. The annual evaluation reports can be found here.

  • Evaluation Highlights 2021

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