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Who we are

Since 1979, HomeSafe has been helping victims of child abuse and domestic violence in Palm Beach County.

HomeSafe offers comprehensive programs including:

• Residential Group Care, providing abused children with comprehensive

therapeutic services to treat severe trauma.

• Safety Net, providing immediate intervention and prevention services to

victims of domestic violence and their children.

• Life Skills, helping at-risk youth prepare to become self-sufficient at 18,

and well into the future.

• Healthy Beginnings, Entry Agency for children birth through five

Healthy Beginnings Offices

NORTH TEAM 1720 E. Tiffany Dr., Ste. 201 West Palm Beach, FL 33407 CENTRAL TEAM 2840 Sixth Avenue South Lake Worth, FL 33461 SOUTH TEAM 680 Ipswich St. Boca Raton, FL 33487 WEST TEAM 2990 N Main St., Ste. 49 Belle Glade, FL 33430

Healthy Beginnings System

“Touch, Refer & Link”

Other community systems

Centering Pregnancy Early Steps First Step to Success Triple P Babies are Born Healthy Children are Safe From Abuse and Neglect Children are Ready for Kindergarten

CSC Scholarships (for quality child care)

Growing Smart Enhanced Services: · Breastfeeding · Nutrition · Smoking Cessation · Childbirth Education Psychosocial Counseling Primary Project

Entry Functions

Outreach Screening & Assessment Navigation Referral & Linkage

Incredible Years* Nurse Family Partnership Parent Child Home Program Healthy Families Child First* Teen Outreach Program

NOTE: *- denotes future programs

Prenatal Screen Infant Screen Ages and Stages Questionnaire – 3

 BRIDGES, Outreach  Healthy Steps & HB Programs  Child Care

Reach Out and Read Nurses Supporting Families Women’s Health Initiative (WHIN) Interconception Care Prenatal Plus Healthy Steps Community Voice

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Healthy Beginnings Programs

Hospital Liaison

Completes Healthy Start Infant Risk Screen in the following nine maternity hospitals:

• Boca Regional Hospital
• West Boca Medical Center
• Bethesda Memorial Hospital
• Wellington Regional Medical Center
• Palms West Hospital
• Lakeside Medical Center
• Good Samaritan Medical Center
• St. Mary’s Medical Center
• Jupiter Medical Center

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Developmental Consultant

Conducts screens and assessments with children in Palm Beach County. The screening process takes place during home visits or at any selected place by the parent. Source of referrals include:

• Healthy Beginnings Providers
• Outreach
• Bridges
• Child Care Centers
• Hospitals
• Child Net
• Community Organizations
• Self-referral

Navigation

Assists families to obtain medical home, payor source and additional community resources during home visits.

• Ensure pediatrician follow up
• Medicaid
• Health Care District
• Florida Kid Care
• Food Stamps
• WIC
• Cash Assistance
• Family Planning Waiver

Outreach

Conducts Ages and Stages Questionnaires with families, educates and provides marketing for the Healthy Beginnings System in the community.

• Family events
• Child Care Centers
• Pediatrician offices
• Libraries
• Home visits

Growing Smart

A two-year developmental monitoring program for families with newborns. Low-risk mothers that are identified through the Healthy Start Infant Risk Screen, based on one of the following criteria:

1.

No High School Diploma nor GED

2.

Two children or more

3.

Little or no social support

Screens & Assessments

• 1. Healthy Start Infant Risk Screen
• 2. Ages & Stages Questionnaire

(ASQ-3)

• Communication
• Fine Motor
• Gross Motor
• Problem solving
• Personal-Social
• 3. Ages & Stages Social Emotional

Questionnaire (ASQ-SE)

Screens

• 1. Battelle Screener
• 2. Achenbach Child Behavior

Checklist (CBCL)

• 3. Edinburgh
• 4. Center for Epidemiologic

Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)

• 5. Modified Checklist for Autism

in Toddlers (M-CHAT)

• 6. Parenting Stress Index (PSI).

Assessments

Service

Assessment

Screen Healthy Start IRS Growing Smart Edinburgh Counseling HBN, WHIN

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Service

Assessment

Screen ASQ-3

Parent Child Home Program Battelle Screener

Early Steps First Steps to Success Child Find

Typical or Monitoring Concern

Service

Assessment

Screen ASQ-SE

Parent Child Home Program

CBCL Triple P Level 3/4 Counseling

Typical or Monitoring Concern

Service

Assessment

Screen ASQ-3 or ASQ-SE CES-D PSI Counseling M-CHAT Early Steps

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HomeSafe Referrals

• Parent Child Home Program
• First Steps to Success
• Early Steps
• Healthy Beginnings Nurses
• WHIN
• NFP
• Healthy Families
• Center for Family Services
• Growing Smart
• Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies

Internal Referrals

• Clients in census track

Bridges

• Child Find
• Multilingual
• CARD
• Parent Child Center
• Other community agencies

External Referrals

QUESTIONS?