Dutchess County Healthy Families

Floor 3, Suite 302

Hours

Monday through Friday
8:30am to 5:00pm
Staff work on a hybrid schedule so the office is not always staffed during those hours but with prior notice, we can make arrangements for someone to be on-site.

Eligibility

Pregnant or parenting families with child under 3 months, adopting families.

Contact

Nora Engelhard
845-452-3387 ext. 3915
nengelhard@institute.org

healthyfamilies@institute2000.org

Mission

To provide high quality, patient-centered primary health care in communities historically neglected due to racism and poverty, regardless of patients’ ability to pay.

About

The Institute for Family Health is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and we operate community-based programs out of the FPC location. Those community-based programs include Dutchess County Healthy Families (DCHF) and the Perinatal and Infant Community Health Collaboratives (PICHC). Our free and voluntary home visiting services can provide support, information, knowledge, and resources to prenatal and parenting families in Dutchess County.

Dutchess County Healthy Families (DCHF):

Long-term program aimed to work with families until the child is 5 years old or entering school.

Healthy Families New York (HFNY) is an evidence-based, voluntary home visiting model designed to provide services to families that begin prenatally, or at birth, through age five. HFNY uses an infant mental health/relational development approach that promotes parent-child attachment to achieve its mission of preventing child abuse, neglect, and other adverse childhood outcomes.

The goals of the program are to:

• Support positive parent-child bonding and relationships.
• Promote optimal child and family health, development, and safety.
• Enhance family self-sufficiency.
• Prevent child abuse and neglect

Website: http://www.healthyfamiliesnewyork.org/programsites.cfm#dutchess