Promoting First Relationships
Promoting First Relationships
Promoting First Relationships is a 10-12 week home visiting program to support parents with their young children in building a healthy and secure relationship. Parents will learn to understand the child’s difficult behaviors, and parents will learn to cope with difficult times of parenting.
Program Details
During home visits, a trained public health nurse or senior community worker partners with families to:
- Record parents and children to provide insight into real-life situations
- Give positive feedback that builds parents’ enjoyment, confidence and connection with their child
- Help parents examine the deeper emotions and needs underlying their own and their child’s behaviors
- Use handouts to share and discuss information about a child’s social and emotional health
Promoting First Relationships can help families to:
- Build a healthy and secure relationship with their child
- Understand a child’s behaviors and look at the feelings and needs behind these behaviors
- Understand how to support a child’s social and emotional health
- Discuss strategies for coping with difficult times as a parent
Learn more about the program from moms who’ve participated in it here.
Eligibility
The Promoting First Relationships program is available to families with a child under 5 years old, who are Medi-Cal eligible and live in San Mateo County.
How to Enroll
Contact Family Health Services at 888-840-0889. All services are free of cost. Services are provided in a family’s preferred language.