What is Healthy Start/Healthy Families Oakland?

Healthy Start/Healthy Families Oakland is an award winning fully-credentialed collaborative program that provides home visitation services for vulnerable families with infants and young children throughout Oakland County. Nine health and human service providers led by St. Joseph Mercy Oakland provide these services in order to promote healthy child growth and development and to strengthen families.

Healthy Start/Healthy Families Oakland is part of the rapidly growing Healthy Families America initiative, with more than 450 program sites across the country. As a result, there have been reductions in child abuse and neglect, reductions in welfare dependency, improved parent-child relationships, more well-baby health visits, increases in immunizations rates and healthy growth and development. Healthy Start/Healthy Families Oakland is the first in Michigan and one of 200 sites across the country to be credentialed by the Council on Accreditation and Prevent Child Abuse America as a Healthy Families America program. Recently the program was awarded the National Association of Counties “Counties Care for Kids” Award.

Millennium Medical Group, P.C. was able to adopt 4 families through this organization for the holiday season.  We were given a Wish List for each family.  The items on the lists were for very basic essentials; blankets, clothes, jackets and infant items.   We were able to fulfill each of the Wish Lists and added several items for each  family; making this holiday season better than they could have hoped for.