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Partners with families to promote healthy lifestyles and nurturing environments. Child and Family Health Services support families with the following services:

• Breastfeeding Classes and Resources: Breastfeeding support services are available in the home, at the Horizon Public Health Office Alexandria main site, and via telephone.

• Child Passenger Safety: Specialists can answer questions regarding child safety seats and check your car seats

• Family Home Visiting: Registered nurses provide a variety of home visiting programs, including prenatal, postpartum, and ongoing parenting support services.

• Follow Along Program: For parents of children ages birth - 5 at no cost to learn if the child is talking, moving, playing, and developing on track for his/her age.

Partners with families to promote healthy lifestyles and nurturing environments. Child and Family Health Services support families with the following services:

• Breastfeeding Classes and Resources: Breastfeeding support services are available in the home, at the Horizon Public Health Office Alexandria main site, and via telephone.

• Child Passenger Safety: Specialists can answer questions regarding child safety seats and check your car seats

• Family Home Visiting: Registered nurses provide a variety of home visiting programs, including prenatal, postpartum, and ongoing parenting support services.

• Follow Along Program: For parents of children ages birth - 5 at no cost to learn if the child is talking, moving, playing, and developing on track for his/her age.

Helps families create safe, nurturing environments for children through health screenings, education, support services, and resources that promote physical health, safety, nutrition, and development. Services include:

• Blood Lead Testing: Screening services to detect lead exposure in children and adults to prevent lead poisoning.

• Child Passenger Safety: Information and services related to child car seat safety and proper restraint use.

• Clinic Services: Health services such as birth control options, pregnancy testing, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and treatment.

• Family Home Visiting: Home-based support programs for families, including developmental tracking and postpartum/newborn visits to help parents meet goals and connect with support resources.

• Immunizations: Vaccination services and information for both children and adults to protect against preventable diseases.

Freeborn County promotes healthy families and safe, nurturing environments for children. The Family Health program supports families as they learn about:

• Childhood safety and injury prevention

• Family and community relationships

• Health and nutrition

• Healthy pregnancies

• Infant and child growth and development

• Positive parenting

• Connection and access to community services according to specific needs

• Parenting skills support and education

• Provides home visiting, newborn/postpartum follow-up home visits, and parenting information and support

• Public Health nurse available to answer questions and offer health information for pregnant and parenting families

Partners with families to promote healthy lifestyles and nurturing environments. Child and Family Health Services support families with the following services:

• Breastfeeding Classes and Resources: Breastfeeding support services are available in the home, at the Horizon Public Health Office Alexandria main site, and via telephone.

• Child Passenger Safety: Specialists can answer questions regarding child safety seats and check your car seats

• Family Home Visiting: Registered nurses provide a variety of home visiting programs, including prenatal, postpartum, and ongoing parenting support services.

• Follow Along Program: For parents of children ages birth - 5 at no cost to learn if the child is talking, moving, playing, and developing on track for his/her age.

A nurse home visiting program to work toward the improvement of:

• Family economic self-sufficiency

• Maternal and child health well being

• Prevention of child abuse or maltreatment

• Prevention of childhood injuries and reduction of emergency department visits

• Reduction in a crime or domestic violence

• Referrals to other community resources and supports

• School readiness

NOTE: Nurse-Family Partnership works by having specially trained nurses regularly visit young, first-time moms-to-be, starting early in the pregnancy, continuing through the child's second birthday

Helps ensure the health of pregnant, and postpartum women, infants, and special needs children. Information and assistance are provided through public health clinics or home visits such as:

• After-home care and resources to assist new mothers such as exercise programs, health needs, parenting education, newborn care, nutritional needs, and infant growth and development

• Car seat program providing education and distribution of car seats for children birth to 8 years

• Child immunizations, physical development screening, and well-baby checks at public health clinics

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effect including home visits

• Guidelines for parents to provide safe care and a healthy environment for their child

• Identification of problems and early intervention activities in conjunction with families and schools to assist families with special needs children

• Nutritional assessment and counseling/education

• Prenatal health needs include nutrition, weight gain, exercise, and substance use

• Preparation of labor and delivery

• Prevention of child maltreatment

• Special care for high risk pregnant women

• Supportive community resources

Home-based service that provides social, emotional, health-related and parenting support and information to families and links them to appropriate resources. Services may include:

• Early support to parents

• Help creating a safe and healthy environment for children

• Parenting skills and support

• Referrals for prenatal care

Partnership with the Greater Mankato Area United Way, Mankato Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System - Mankato. The overall goals of the program are to help pregnant women have healthy babies, promote child health and development, and strengthen family self-sufficiency. The Coordinator is located within the obstetrics departments of the Mankato Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System. The Coordinator serves pregnant women and families with young children (birth - Kindergarten age), offering them additional support, and connections to resources and supports within their community. First Steps Home Visiting provides support to families with children prenatally to 3 years of age with home visits focusing on education, health, and resources to strengthen the parent-child relationship.

County public health nurses visit families in homes or in offices to offer health promotion screening and health education. Visits are voluntary and tailored to the individual family's interests and needs. Nurses can offer a variety of discussions about:

• Breastfeeding

• Child health, growth, development, and safety

• Family planning

• Infant care

• Nutrition

• Parenting

• Pregnancy health

A nurse home visiting program to work toward the improvement of:

• Family economic self-sufficiency

• Maternal and child health well being

• Prevention of child abuse or maltreatment

• Prevention of childhood injuries and reduction of emergency department visits

• Reduction in a crime or domestic violence

• Referrals to other community resources and supports

• School readiness

NOTE: Nurse-Family Partnership works by having specially trained nurses regularly visit young, first-time moms-to-be, starting early in the pregnancy, continuing through the child's second birthday

Partners with families to promote healthy lifestyles and nurturing environments. Child and Family Health Services support families with the following services:

• Breastfeeding Classes and Resources: Breastfeeding support services are available in the home, at the Horizon Public Health Office Alexandria main site, and via telephone.

• Child Passenger Safety: Specialists can answer questions regarding child safety seats and check your car seats

• Family Home Visiting: Registered nurses provide a variety of home visiting programs, including prenatal, postpartum, and ongoing parenting support services.

• Follow Along Program: For parents of children ages birth - 5 at no cost to learn if the child is talking, moving, playing, and developing on track for his/her age.

Partners with families to promote healthy lifestyles and nurturing environments. Child and Family Health Services support families with the following services:

• Breastfeeding Classes and Resources: Breastfeeding support services are available in the home, at the Horizon Public Health Office Alexandria main site, and via telephone.

• Child Passenger Safety: Specialists can answer questions regarding child safety seats and check your car seats

• Family Home Visiting: Registered nurses provide a variety of home visiting programs, including prenatal, postpartum, and ongoing parenting support services.

• Follow Along Program: For parents of children ages birth - 5 at no cost to learn if the child is talking, moving, playing, and developing on track for his/her age.

• Child & Teen Checkups: Provides regular health checks up for birth - 21 years who are enrolled in Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare

• Child Passenger Safety: Provides free car seat inspections

• Family Home Visiting: A nurse can come to your home, provide prenatal and postpartum education

• Follow Along Programtheirps parents know how thier child is progressing with their health and development

• Prenatal Care & Education: Breast and bottle feeding, fetal development, labor and delivery, nutrition, safety and car seats, and more.

Partners with families to promote healthy lifestyles and nurturing environments. Family health services support families with the following services:

• Breastfeeding support

• Child passenger safety: specialists can answer questions regarding child safety seats and check your car seats

• Family Home Visiting: provides a variety of home visiting programs including prenatal, postpartum and ongoing parenting support services.

• Family education and resources

Program follows children ages birth - 36 months by asking parents fill out questionnaires about their child. Some children need special assistance to be healthy and learn skills such as sitting, walking, or talking. Provides opportunities for education about age-appropriate child health and development, empowering parents to compare their child's development to that of other children in his/her age group.

Offers family health and child development services which may include:

• Car seat safety education

?- Home visits to pregnant individuals and first-time parents

• Postnatal home visit

Home visiting service by public health nurses during pregnancy and through the first two years of life after a baby is born. Home visits are voluntary and there is no charge. Visits focus on the woman's health, the infant's health and development, parenting and caretaking role, and the family's plans for the future. The program includes:

• Childbirth and breastfeeding education

• Family planning information

• Health screenings and linkage to community resources

• Lead counseling

• Mental wellbeing referrals and support

• Parenting education and child developmental screenings

• Supportive nurse visits

• Smoking cessation information

• WIC/nutrition counseling

Home visiting service by public health nurses during pregnancy and through the first two years of life after a baby is born. Home visits are voluntary and there is no charge. Visits focus on the woman's health, the infant's health and development, parenting and caretaking role, and the family's plans for the future. The program includes:

• Childbirth and breastfeeding education

• Family planning information

• Health screenings and linkage to community resources

• Lead counseling

• Mental wellbeing referrals and support

• Parenting education and child developmental screenings

• Supportive nurse visits

• Smoking cessation information

• WIC/nutrition counseling

Registered Nurses provide a variety of programs to serve families. These programs include family home visiting during pregnancy and after the birth of your child, breastfeeding support, developmental screening for ones child, and more.

Provide care consultation and public health nursing services for pregnant women, new parents, and infants and children. Services include:

• Breastfeeding support

• Education regarding the health, growth, and development of newborns, infants, and children including developmental screenings

• Individual instruction on correct use of child passenger safety seats (an appointment is necessary)

• Infant/children's mental health (social and emotional development) information

• Information and referrals to support resources for infants/children with special health needs

• Information regarding pregnancy, labor, and delivery

• Perinatal depression screening

• Pregnancy prevention information

• Self care and nutrition information

This office also offers child passenger safety seats for eligible families. Maternal and Child Health nurses provided ongoing home visits for infants and children from birth to age 3 to support healthy development and address developmental concerns. In addition the staff ensures that eligible children receive Child and Teen Checkups to ensure that children, birth to 21 years old with Medicaid or MinnesotaCare health coverage. C&TC screenings include:

• Dental referral

• Development Health information

• Hearing and vision Immunizations

• Height and weight Physical exam

• Nutrition Lab tests

MCH nurse can help with scheduling and arranging for transportation or language interpreters when needed.

Baby Connections is a home visiting program providing parenting support and information about infant development, sibling rivalry, infant sleeping patterns and other parenting topics.

Provides family health services including:

• Breastfeeding services

• Car seat education and child passenger safety checks

• Family home visiting

• Follow Along Program

• Postpartum support

• Prenatal support

Helps families create safe, nurturing environments for children through health screenings, education, support services, and resources that promote physical health, safety, nutrition, and development. Services include:

• Blood Lead Testing: Screening services to detect lead exposure in children and adults to prevent lead poisoning.

• Child Passenger Safety: Information and services related to child car seat safety and proper restraint use.

• Clinic Services: Health services such as birth control options, pregnancy testing, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and treatment.

• Family Home Visiting: Home-based support programs for families, including developmental tracking and postpartum/newborn visits to help parents meet goals and connect with support resources.

• Immunizations: Vaccination services and information for both children and adults to protect against preventable diseases.