Healthy Families MA Healthy Families MA HFM provides

Healthy Families MA • Healthy Families MA (HFM) provides voluntary, universal, strengths-based, family centered, intensive home visiting services for all first time parents, age 20 and under, across Massachusetts. • Participants can enroll during pregnancy, or up to the child’s first birthday and receive services until their child turns three. • HFM is offered statewide, in every community www. childrenstrustma. org

Healthy Families MA • We have the capacity to serve 2, 900 families each year • In FY 18 HFM served 2, 667 families • Approximately half of these families were newly enrolled • Our network consists of 145 home visitors, 24 supervisors, and 22 coordinators • All staff utilize our web based Participant Data System (PDS) www. childrenstrustma. org

Building Relationships with Participants • Following 1 st Home Visit staff have 45 days to complete our “Family Profile” assessment with participants which include questions and screens for: – Depression (CESD) – Smoking – Interpersonal Violence Screen (PVS) – Income & Benefits – Juvenile Justice involvement

Introducing ACES • In the spring of 2017 began having conversations about incorporating ACES with coordinators and supervisors • Continued having internal conversations about the feasibility of imbedding the tool into our Family Profile • Decided we needed to continue to educate our workforce on ACES as a first step • This year we began screening the film “Resiliency” with individual program staff with great sucess

Our ultimate goal • Educate our workforce and families on the impact of toxic stress based on the science • Help our workforce learn how to normalize the conversation • Provide staff with the tools to be able to discuss resiliency with families and provide strategies to support them