For some like Tasha, support may begin during pregnancy, while for others enrollment in the program commences following a universal screening done before the baby leaves Winchester Medical Center with his or her family. Families enrolled in the program work with family support workers who help new parents focus on bonding and attachment, establish a family goal plan, visit the home once a week, offer parent education classes and help with making sure babies have the basics such as diapers and wipes.
Tasha and her daughter, Naleigha, have participated in HF programs for four years. Sylvette has been a welcome and steady source of support for both mother and daughter. Healthy Families is a grant-funded department of Winchester Medical Center. The main office is located on the Valley Health-sponsored Our Health campus in Winchester, while a satellite office is found at Warren Memorial Hospital. The partnership with Valley Health is a model for others around the state.
And our services are free and voluntary. One of 32 Healthy Families sites in Virginia, the organization also sponsors parent support groups and fun family-focused events, like Cocoa and Cookies with Santa. But the year-round work of the staff is what has the biggest impact on families in the program.
Seeing the happy faces and big smiles of our kids is the biggest reward of all! Interested in supporting Healthy Families as their team helps parents and children in our community? Most of those parents will be obtaining coverage from private insurers through a subsidized insurance exchange, not from Medi-Cal.
As a result, children and their parents would be getting their healthcare from different programs, in many cases with separate networks of doctors and hospitals. That makes little sense. Lawmakers should preserve Healthy Families along with the tax on managed-care plans at least until the major changes wrought by the federal law are in place.
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