Back to Previous PageFamily Support Services A wide range of projects and services are offered by Healthy Families San Angelo to support "fragile families" in our area in their efforts to become better parents and better partners. With these efforts we strive to promote positive parental relationships, enhance family functioning, and promote healthy child growth and development.
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Dads Make a Difference Program
Healthy Families Curricula
Home Visitation
Couple Time
Building Strong Families Project
Commercial Driver's License
WIA Program
Moms' Group
Dads Make a Difference Program
Healthy Families San Angelo was among the first family support programs to realize that fathers play a significant and critical role in ensuring positive outcomes for children. This program supports new dads in making a difference in their child's life by providing skills and information they need to raise happy, healthy children.
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Healthy Families Curricula
Healthy Families San Angelo had developed a set of curricula currently being used by family support programs internationally. All are simple to understand, interactive, and enjoyable--a must in engaging new parents. They are designed for use in home visits, office visits, or in group settings.
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Home Visitations
Couples enrolled in the Building Strong Families project through Healthy Families San Angelo receive intensive, long-term, home-based family support from our staff of Home Visitors. These staff members help families learn skills in couple relationships, parenting, enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving, developing self-esteem, and raising the family's level of functioning through improved employment and/or education.
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Couple Time
Healthy Families San Angelo provides a group-based service called Couple Time which brings our program's couples together in a relaxed atmosphere to discuss the skills and information they need to build strong, productive relationships. Dinner and babysitting/child care are provided to allow couples the freedom to focus on their relationships.
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Building Strong Families Project
Healthy Families San Angelo was one of seven programs in the country selected to be part of the Building Strong Families (BSF) project, groundbreaking research designed to evaluate impacts and point to lessons about how to run effective healthy marriage programs. is one of the centerpieces of a broad policy strategy to support healthy marriage.
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Commercial Driver's License
The Healthy Families Father Support Team has created a public/private venture with Reece Albert, Inc. that enables fathers to earn Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDLs) plus have guaranteed jobs starting at a premium wage. Before this program existed, CDLs were only available through an academy over 150 miles away that costs $5,000.00 and requires students to live in dorms for the four months of classes--an impractical arrangement for dads in San Angelo.
Under this new program, Healthy Families San Angelo agrees to help dads pass the written part of the CDL test by providing textbooks, a place to study, and encouragement. After they pass the written exam, Reece Albert helps them with the driving part of the test and assures them a job starting at $10.00/hr. The typical starting salary for a driver in this area is $7.25/hr. Dads are also helped in getting their license, work boots, and uniforms.
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Workforce Investment Act Program
A goal for all HFSA projects is to decrease family stress by improving education and employability. Since 2002 Healthy Families has collaborated with the Workforce Investment Act Youth Program (WIAYP). Project parents between the ages of 14 and 22 have had the opportunity to attain basic skills, occupational skills training, and self-sustaining employment. Parents who participate in the program receive services including academics, paid and unpaid work experiences, occupational and vocational skills training, leadership development opportunities, and comprehensive guidance and counseling.
Thanks to a contract with the Texas Workforce WIA Youth Program, HFSA offers our parents the opportunity to become Certified Nurse Assistants. HFSA pays for parents' registration, supplies, uniforms, and books. Many Healthy Families moms and dads have become CNAs and have gone on to careers in the medical field.
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Moms' Group
Every three months the moms in the Healthy Families San Angelo program meet in our building to have fun and discuss topics such as child development, job search, legal issues, and child health and wellness. Moms with older children help newer moms with advice and understanding. In addition to frequent guest speakers, the moms are also offered craft activities, which encourage conversation and the building of friendships.
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