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The Georgia Strong Families Program is a Healthy Start Initiative focused on improving women’s health before, during, and after pregnancy, thus creating a healthy birth and family. We provide moms, their partners, and infants with the resources, support and help needed to thrive as a healthy family. Our program is available for women of childbearing age and pregnant women from 19 to 49, families, and caregivers of children from birth to 18 months old in the following counties:
Clay, Crisp, Dooly, Muscogee, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot and Taylor.
Georgia Strong Families provides:
- Case management and home visitation
- Parenting and childbirth education classes
- Mental health counseling sessions
- Access to doula care
- Monthly group workshops & play groups
- Health and development screenings
- Connection to local resources
- ‘Earn while you learn’ baby items and other incentives
- Fatherhood Program
The program is completely voluntary, and there is no cost or income requirement to receive services. For more information, contact us at 706-321-6322 or by email at d7.gsf@dph.ga.gov.
Fatherhood Program
You don’t have to be a ‘Super Dad’ to be a GREAT DAD!
Our Fatherhood Program is for dads, grandfathers or father figures involved with a child under the age of two. We want to help men learn the self-awareness, compassion, and responsibility that every good parent needs. The goals of the program are to:
• Empower men and increase their self-worth, as a man and father
• Increase their awareness and knowledge about the basics needed to be a good father
• Encourage emotional involvement with their child(ren)
• Increase positive habits for fathers and parenting skills
Sessions include topics like exploring a father’s role, discipline, children’s growth, communication, working with mom and co-parenting, and more!
The Fatherhood Program includes:
- Case management
- Men’s resource fairs
- Monthly ‘Barbershop Talks’
- Dad’s ‘Baby Bootcamp’
- Dad focused community baby showers
- Quarterly health & wellness mailings
- Connection to local resources
All men are welcome, but especially men who have a pregnant partner, and fathers, grandfathers or father figures involved with a child under the age of two. For information, visit our website, call us at 706-321-6322, or email at d7.gsf@dph.ga.gov.