1. 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

2. Healthy Families MA
We have the capacity to serve 2,900 families each year
In FY18 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)

3. Building Relationships with Participants
Following 1st 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

4. 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

5. 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