The Healthy Families New York Home Visiting Program offers home-based services to expectant families and new parents beginning prenatally or shortly after the birth of the child. Participants are screened to identify risk factors and stressors the family may face. Families who participate are offered long-term in-home services until the child is in school or Head Start.
Explore the Boys Town resource library for parenting information and articles developed by child behavior experts.
Check out the resources linked below to get support with education, jobs, child care, finances, emotional well-being, and parenting skills for young parents in NYC.
Parents League empowers families by providing advisory services and parenting resources through partnerships with schools and educational providers.
The Council on Children and Families (the Council) coordinates New York's health, education and human services systems to provide more effective systems of care for children and families. Use these resources to make families aware of child care options, helpful hints to navigate concerns about development delays, and parenting support in your community.
The Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) puts children first by helping both parents provide for the economic and social well-being, health, and stability of their children. The child support program is among the most effective anti-poverty programs in the country, and in New York City alone, the program keeps tens of thousands of low-income families from falling into poverty each year.
The Administation of Child Services of NYC put together a child safety booklet that gives parents and caregivers tips on how to avoid some of the most common and dangerous child and infant-related injuries, including window falls, drowning, shaken baby syndrome, and unintended poisonings in the home.
The booklet is available in English, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Korean.
If you are pregnant or thinking about having a baby, New York City has free and confidential sexual health services and health insurance programs, as well as clinics to help with many pregnancy-related conditions.
The free Text4baby app makes it easy for you to get critical health and safety information. As the perfect companion to text messages sent by text4baby, you can get more health and safety tips and access fun, interactive features, including how your baby is growing each week, your progress and medical updates, quizzes, and appointment reminders.
Text messages are free for people who have pay-as-you-go or pre-paid cell phones.
MotherToBaby NY specializes in answering questions about the benefit/risk of exposures, such as medications, vaccines, chemicals, herbal products, substances of abuse, maternal health conditions and much more, during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Informational services are available at no cost to people who are pregnant and/or breastfeeding, their family members, health professionals, and the general public via chat, text, phone, and email in both English and Spanish.
The organization supports parents with feelings of sadness, fear, worry or loneliness when having a baby. The Center help parents find the help that they need. Please note that Postpartum New York Resource Center is not a Hotline.
This is your Guide, the story of the first five years of your parenting journey. Whether you are the mother or father (through birth, adoption, or foster care), a grandparent, partner, family friend, aunt or uncle with parenting responsibilities, what you say and do in your role as a parent matters.
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