2. 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.
Independent Living
Healthy Beginnings, Entry Agency for children birth through five

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

5. Healthy Beginnings Programs
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6. 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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7. 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

8. 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

9. Mobile Outreach Office
HomeSafe Outreach has a mobile Outreach van that provides a place for children to be screened at events and other places in the community.

10. 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
DCF
Community Organizations
Self-referral
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11. 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:
No High School Diploma nor GED
Two children or more
Little or no social support

12. Growing Smart
Developmental Support Specialist completes Ages & Stages Questionnaires, Edinburgh and Home Safety Checklist with participating families.

13. Screens & Assessments

14. Screens Healthy Start Infant Risk Screen
Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3)
Communication
Fine Motor
Gross Motor
Problem solving
Personal-Social
Ages & Stages Social Emotional Questionnaire (ASQ-SE)

15. Assessments Battelle Screener
Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Edinburgh
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT)
Parenting Stress Index (PSI)
Parent Questionnaire for
Child First
Assessments

16. Child First Parent Questionnaire
Healthy Start IRS
Growing Smart
Edinburgh
Counseling
HBN, WHIN or HF
Screen
Assessment
Service
Low Risk
Child First Parent Questionnaire
Child First

17. Parent Child Home Program
ASQ-3
Parent Child Home Program
Battelle Screener
Early Steps
First Steps to Success
Child Find
Screen
Assessment
Service
Typical
Concern

18. Parent Child Home Program
ASQ-SE
Parent Child Home Program
CBCL
Triple P Level 3/4
Counseling
Screen
Assessment
Service
Typical
Concern

19. ASQ-3 or ASQ-SE CES-D PSI Counseling M-CHAT Early Steps or CARD Screen
Assessment
Service
Child First
Parent Questionnaire

20. HomeSafe Referrals Internal Referrals Bridges External 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
Child First
Internal Referrals
Clients in census track
Bridges
Child Find
Multilingual
CARD
Parent Child Center
Other community agencies
External Referrals

21. QUESTIONS?