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Healthy Start/Healthy
Families
What is Healthy Start/Healthy
Families?
Healthy Start/Healthy Families Support is a
voluntary home visitation/family support program offering services
to all new families during the prenatal period and/or at the time of
birth.
Families with few, if any, risk characteristics are offered
short-term assistance. More intensive family support services
extending through the early childhood years are reserved for
families whose multiple characteristics place them at risk for poor
child and family outcomes.
Healthy Start/Healthy Families is designed to increase the number of children ready
for school, increase parenting skills, improve the family's
support system and family functioning, and decrease the likelihood
of child maltreatment. A comprehensive assessment system is used to
systematically identify high-risk families. An independent
evaluation is performed annually by NPC Research.
What is the
Healthy Start/Healthy Families Advisory Board?
The Douglas County Healthy Start/Healthy Families Advisory Board advises the local
program, and reports to the Douglas County Commission on Children &
Families (DCCF) its recommendations in planning, implementation,
policies, and assessment of Healthy Start/Healthy Families program services, and the
role of Healthy Start/Healthy Families in Douglas County’s local early childhood
system of supports and services. Each county is required to have a
local Healthy Start/Healthy Families Advisory Committee, which may be the local Early
Childhood Team.
The Healthy Start/Healthy Families Advisory Board has a wide range of skills and
abilities and provides a heterogeneous mix of skills, strengths,
community knowledge, professions, age, race, sex, gender, and
ethnicity. Membership includes direct representation by community
members, including a representative of the medical profession, and
program participants. Healthy Start/Healthy Families providers/contractors/staff may
provide Healthy Start/Healthy Families program information to the Healthy Start/Healthy
Families
Advisory Board but may not participate in board decisions on
advising the program or preparing reports to the DCCF.
Douglas County's Healthy Start/Healthy
Families Advisory Board
is chaired by Steve Schenewerk of Douglas County Commission on
Children & Families.
Members include the following:
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ADVISORY BOARD
MEMBERS |
TITLE/ORGANIZATION |
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Schenewerk, Pastor Steve |
Advisory Board Chair, Douglas County Commission
on Children & Families |
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Bell, Julie |
Business |
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Brausam, Matt |
Special Education Administrator |
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Dunbar, Aaron |
Roseburg Police Department |
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Eads, Gary |
McDonald's
Restaurants,
Owner Eads Enterprises |
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Hahn, Pastor Rick
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Vine
Street Baptist Church |
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Larkin, Tim |
Principal,
Canyonville Elementary School (South Umpqua School District
Reading First & Title Program Coordinator) |
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Lewis, Lisa |
Oregon Dept. of Human Services |
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Short,
Maureen |
Program Director, Head Start |
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NON-VOTING MEMBERS |
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Hardin, Karin |
Healthy Start/Family
Development Center |
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Marshall, Dawnelle |
Douglas
County Health Dept. |
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Rinaker, Deborah |
RN, Mercy Medical Center |
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Stutes, Charlene |
Family Development Center |
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Wesenberg, Gillian |
CCF Director |
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Council Chair
Steve Schenewerk
Douglas County Commission on Children & Families
Staff
Director
Douglas County Commission on Children & Families
541-957-4622
Address:
1036 SE Douglas
Room 7
Roseburg, OR 97470
Fax: 541-957-4648
Policy & Procedures:
2010 Douglas County
Healthy Start/Healthy Families Policy and Procedures Manual
2011 Healthy Start - Healthy
Families of Douglas County Policies & Procedures Manual
2012
Healthy Start~Healthy Families of Douglas County Policies &
Procedures Manual
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