Healthy Babies Healthy Children (Toronto Public Health): free home visits in pregnancy and the early years

A free, voluntary home visiting program. A Public Health Nurse and a Family Home Visitor visit you at home and help with pregnancy, breastfeeding and feeding, your child's growth and development, parenting and your own well-being, and connect you to community programs and health services. Family Home Visitors come from many cultural groups and may speak your language, and interpretation is available.

Program in Toronto. Parents & families Health & care Newcomers

When: Open all year. A child can join until their third birthday.

How to reach them

1. Go to the phone line.
2. Say who you are and what you are offering or asking.
3. Come back here and tell us if they answered.

Other ways, if that one is quiet

• Chat live with a Public Health Nurse (eChat, Mon to Fri 8:30 am to 4 pm, for Toronto residents)Chat live with a Public Health Nurse (eChat, Mon to Fri 8:30 am to 4 pm, for Toronto residents)
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• EmailEmail PublicHealth@toronto.ca
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• PhoneCall 416-338-7600
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Where else they are

Their website is toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness....

Good to know

• For whomPeople who live in Toronto, are pregnant or parenting a child 3 or younger (children can join until their third birthday), are the child's legal guardian, can have home visits during program hours, and have at least one need, for example: a newcomer to Canada here less than 3 years and having a first baby in Canada, little support around you, a physical or mental health problem that makes parenting or pregnancy hard, questions about your child's health or development, or hard life situations such as homelessness, domestic violence or no OHIP. You do not need an OHIP card.
• CostFree
• Their stepsCall Toronto Public Health at 416-338-7600 (Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm) and ask to join Healthy Babies Healthy Children. You can refer yourself. Or ask your doctor, midwife, nurse or social worker to refer you with the program's online referral form. Give your consent. A Public Health Nurse and a Family Home Visitor then visit you at home and work with you on your family's health goals. Also ask about Nurse-Family Partnership (first-time parents 24 or younger, less than 26 weeks pregnant, with financial concerns such as low income or Ontario Works) and HARP (pregnant people who are homeless in Toronto and have substance use or acute mental health concerns).

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