Healthy Families Illinois (HFI)

The Healthy Families Illinois (HFI) Program assesses a family's strengths and provides support toward the enhancement of positive parent/child interaction and development.

The program is a voluntary home visitation program that works with expectant and new parents who may be at risk for problems in parenting. Through intensive home visiting, HFI works to strengthen the parent/child relationship, promote positive parenting and healthy child growth and development. Home visits are offered weekly for the first six months and may continue for up to five years, with the length and frequency determined by the needs of the family. Home visitors model positive parenting skills and provide information on child growth, development and safety.
The program also assist parents in identifying/meeting their own educational/employment goals. DHS funds fifty-one HFI programs throughout the state where the thirty-nine Department-administered programs target parents prenatally or shortly after birth and the twelve sites sub-contracted through a not for profit agency target first time teen parents.

To qualify for HFI through the Iroquois Community Health and Social Services Center a family must:

live in Iroquois county
be pregnant or have an infant that is in the first two weeks of life