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 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. Services begin during the prenatal period or shortly after birth and continue until a child is 3 to 5 years old.

The HFNY Home Visiting Program now includes 39 HFNY sites in communities all across New York, whose work is coordinated by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. The program is based on a national model of home visiting services developed by Healthy Families America.

Prevent Child Abuse New York’s HFNY Training and Staff Development Team 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.

HFNY is a proven program! Read more:

• Research has demonstrated that mothers participating in HFNY are less likely to have a low birth weight baby (PDF), less likely to commit serious acts of abuse, and are more likely to engage in positive parenting practices and less likely to engage in harsh parenting behaviors (PDF).
• Full report: Healthy Families New York Randomized Trial: Impacts on Parenting After the First Two Years (PDF)
• Summary of program impacts after one year of home visiting
  
• Full report: Evaluation of Healthy Families New York: First Year Program Impacts (PDF 481k).
  

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