HEALTHYSTEPS

HealthySteps Hillsborough provides services and outcome measures that impact participants at the prevention level. The program utilizes an evidence-based model of interdisciplinary pediatric primary care. HealthySteps Specialists work in collaboration with Tampa General Hospital Brandon Healthplex and two University of South Florida Pediatrics NICU Follow Up Clinics.

 

HealthySteps Hillsborough provides parenting education, information, referral and care coordination to families with children who reside in Hillsborough County. The program supports children and their families by helping to identify, understand and manage parenting challenges such as feeding, behavior, sleep, development and adapting to life with a young child. It focuses on families from the identified pediatric care sites with children, birth to age three.

 

Program Components Include:

• Child Development, Social-Emotional
  and Behavioral Screening

• Screening for Family Needs

• Child Development Support Line

• Child Development & Behavior Consults

• Care Coordination & Systems Navigation

• Positive Parenting Guidance & Information

• Early Learning Resources

• Ongoing, Preventive Team-Based
  Well-Child Visits