A home visiting
program,
serving
first time
parents in
Austin, Texas
and surrounding
communities.
Healthy Families Travis County (HFTC) is a voluntary, home-visiting program for overburdened parents and
their families. The primary objectives of the program are to promote healthy parent-child relationships, support
appropriate child development, prevent child abuse and neglect, and enhance family functioning.

The research-based, Healthy Families America model was chosen for its documented success in those areas.
Serving families in the Austin area for thirteen years, HFTC is one of only two programs in Texas to be awarded
national credentials for Best Practices by Healthy Families America and Prevent Child Abuse America (links below).

Currently, HFTC serves families who receive prenatal care in local CommUnity Care clinics and reside
in the zip code areas: 78702, 78704, 78723, 78724, 78741, 78752, 78758 and 78617.
The program also reaches out to some area high schools.
2010 Performance Outcomes of Healthy Families Travis County include:

100% - No confirmed cases of child abuse or neglect
96% - Children attend age-appropriate well-child check ups
96% - Children receive age-appropriate immunizations
97% - Children have age-appropriate development

Healthy Families Travis County is a program within the Office of Children Services in
Travis County's Health and Human Services & Veterans Services Department.