Help Me Grow is a Home Visiting program that provides expectant or new parents with the information, support and encouragement they need through a voluntary, high-quality home visiting service. Home Visiting aims to educate at-risk parents with the resources to understand and capitalize on the optimal early years of a child’s life. By supporting the positive interaction with children in stable and stimulating environments, the Home Visiting program seeks to create a sturdy foundation for future achievement. Ultimately, this approach is essential to the educational and economic success of Ohio’s children and families.

• Increase healthy pregnancies
• Improve parenting confidence and competence
• Increase family connections to community and social supports
• Improve child health, development, and readiness

Parents as Teachers is an international, evidence-based, home visiting program that supports parents as their child's earliest and best teacher and helps children grow, learn and reach their full potential. Families with a child under age three in Cuyahoga County are eligible. The goals are to:

• Increase children's school readiness and school success
• Increase parent knowledge of early childhood development and improve parenting practices
• Provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues
• Decrease parent stress