Refer your customer to the HBHC software.

Healthy Babies Healthy Children (HBHC) is an extended-term home journeying software supplied by way of Public Health Nurses and Family Home Visitors. HBHC Public Health Nurses are registered nurses who specialise in baby fitness and development. Family Home Visitors (FHVs) are experienced dad and mom who've obtained greater education to assist households with younger children. Our FHVs come from many exceptional cultural agencies and may be capable of provide service inside the purchaser’s preferred language.

The application is free, voluntary and clients do now not require an OHIP card so that you can acquire service.

Clients who are cited the HBHC program should provide consent for carrier.

The Healthy Babies Healthy Children (HBHC) software provides services to families within the prenatal length and to households with children of their early years (start up till a baby’s 0.33 birthday). Children can input the HBHC application up till their 0.33 birthday.

To be eligible for HBHC offerings the consumer have to be

• residing in Toronto
• pregnant or parenting a baby who is 0 to 3 years vintage
• the legal dad or mum of the kid(ren)
• actively parenting the child(ren) inside the family’s location of residence
• and to be had for domestic visits in the course of our hours of operation.

The purchaser should also meet one or greater of the subsequent criteria:

• Healthcare expert has worries approximately the fitness and nicely-being of the patron, circle of relatives and/or infant.
• Parent has issues or questions about the child’s health and development, parenting, figure-toddler courting.
• Newcomer to Canada, right here much less than 3 years and having their first baby in Canada.
• Client has a restricted informal and/or formal help machine.
• Client has a history of or is experiencing bodily and/or intellectual health illness that is impacting ability to determine or cope with being pregnant.
• Client going through difficult life conditions or life stressors inclusive of homeless, domestic violence, toddler protection issues, no OHIP.

What Services Are Provided

• common and extensive domestic travelling by means of a Public Health Nurse and Family Home Visitor
• help and health coaching throughout the prenatal length
• breastfeeding and infant/infant feeding support and teaching
• fitness advertising teaching related to child growth and development, parenting, wholesome determine-toddler courting
• referrals to community programs and fitness offerings
• carrier coordination to make sure households acquire appropriate, incorporated, desires-based totally coordinated services that construct on their strengths

What Specialized Services Are Available

In order to fulfill the needs of Toronto’s numerous and prone populations, Toronto Public Health presents additional focused services below the HBHC program.

Homeless At Risk Prenatal (HARP) is a community journeying application that strives to sell fantastic prenatal and start consequences in homeless, transient pregnant girls with more than one and complicated fitness and social desires consisting of addictions, intellectual fitness troubles and toddler safety services involvement. This provider is provided by way of Public Health Nurses.

Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is an proof-based home traveling software for younger girls (21 years old and beneath), experiencing their first pregnancy (first parenting experience), who're much less than 29 weeks pregnant and experiencing economic stressors. This provider is supplied by using Public Health Nurses.

HBHC Program Objectives

• supporting top-rated prenatal health and birth consequences
• improving baby fitness and improvement results
• improving the discern-toddler courting
• improving parenting ability
• promoting wonderful parenting abilities