Center for Healthy Families

Promoting healthy families through parent education, child support, and early detection and intervention.

The LFS Center for Healthy Families promotes healthy family behaviors through parent education and support, family and community awareness, and early detection and intervention for improved physical and mental health.

The Center for Healthy Families is available to any Pottawattamie County family with children five and under. You can visit us in our Council Bluffs location.

 

 

Available Services

  • The Young Family Initiative Program focuses on prevention and early intervention services for expectant mothers and families with young children and is free of charge.

    We promote healthy family behaviors through parent education and support, family and community awareness, and early detection and intervention for improved physical and mental health. This program offers individual case management services for caregivers focusing on client-driven goal-setting to increase healthy parenting behaviors.

    Families earn points for participating in activities that increase child and family health, family safety, and family self-sufficiency. Activities include prenatal and well-baby checkups, early literacy programs, and developmental screenings for their children. With earned points, families obtain needed infant and toddler items such as diapers, hygiene items, strollers, clothing, children’s books, and car seats.

    This programming also offers educational support to all families in group parenting classes which include the Circle of Security curriculums. All program offerings are available to clients in English and Spanish.

    Points-earning behaviors include:

    • Well-baby check-ups
    • Immunizations
    • Continuing education
    • Home visits
    • Breastfeeding
    • Parenting classes

    Additional services include parenting classes, parenting support groups, developmental screenings, and community referrals.

  • Lutheran Family Services offers parenting education classes at our Center for Healthy Families:

    Circle of Security curriculum is an 8-session parenting class focusing on the attachment and relationship of parent and child and teaching parenting skills of encouragement, support, and acknowledgment.

    For information about class schedules please call 402-661-7100 or e-mail Susan.Pawloski@OneLFS.org.