Building Healthy Families (BHF) is an independent, nonprofit parent support organization, offering personalized universal support and education for parents, caregivers and parents-to-be through the home visits program, parent education, resource library, Healthy Start, and Safe Visits program.  At BHF, we focus on child development, age-appropriate behavior, parent-child interaction, positive discipline, and family health and safety.  We promote family access to needed resources in the community, and advocate for children and families.

PROGRAMS

Alternative Education

 Building Healthy Families is pleased to announce an exciting collaboration with the Enterprise School District!  BHF welcomes the Alternative Education students to their new classroom and an engaging, innovative education opportunity.  BHF has designed hands-on, project-based curriculum that meets the individual academic needs of each of our new students. 

Community Resource Team

The Community Resource Team (CRT) is a multi-agency, strength based planning process, which increases coordination to connect families (with children 0-17) with services in an effort to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors. The CRT members come together (one location-one time) to wrap services around the family—a “one stop” approach to providing services to families.  Personalized follow-up and individual family support is provided by Building Healthy Families.

Exploration: An Out-of-School-Time Alliance

Exploration is an out-of-school-time community collaboration, housed at Wallowa School District.  The desired program outcomes include:  Keep Kids Safe; Support Working Families; Inspire Learning: Improve academic achievement.   The program’s curriculum providers include: Wallowa Resources, OSU Extension Service and Wallowa County Library.  Exploration offers afterschool programming for students K-4th and tutoring/mentoring for all Wallowa County students 5-12th grades.   If you are interested in volunteering please contact Building Healthy Families.

Home Visits

Individual family support is available for Wallowa County families through home visiting. Home visits are voluntary, free and confidential, and are tailored to the individual family’s needs and interests. One-on-one parenting support allows for a relaxed, convenient and private session. Together with the home visitor, families identify needs or issues and are supported in parent-child interaction, positive discipline, understanding temperament, or with other parenting or family concerns.

Literacy Link

Literacy Link will develop and expand services currently being provided by Building Healthy Families and the Wallowa County Library to populations not being reached or underserved.  Key project literacy components include the Parents As Teacher best-practice curriculum and the research-based Every Child Ready to Read @ your public library.  The curriculums will offer new family literacy services and enhance programs focusing on parent/caregiver education, children’s outreach literacy programs, and free literacy materials.

Parent Education

Join our parent study groups offered for families with children 0-8 years old.  Pre-teen and teen classes offered in each school district each year.  We offer free childcare, meals, and accessible classroom.  Classes are offered at a minimal rate, with scholarships available.  Call for more information on class schedules, locations, and times.

Safe Visits

A community service program of supervised visits and monitored exchanges for children who would otherwise be unable to spend time with one of their parents.  The program focuses on the safety and best interests of domestic violence victims and their children.

SMART Reading

The SMART reading program helps kids become confident readers by providing individual volunteer attention and new, take-home books.  Wallowa County has over 45 SMART reading volunteers in Enterprise, Joseph, and Wallowa school districts.

Wallowa Valley Healthy Start

Healthy Start is a voluntary home visiting and family support program that assists first-time families in giving their newborn children a “healthy start” in life.

BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES
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