Our Partners
Developing Families Center
The DC Developing Families Center promotes the empowerment of low-income families through the collaboration of three nonprofit service providers: the Family Health and Birth Center, the Healthy Babies Project, and the United Planning Organization’s Early Childhood Development Center.
A unique umbrella organization, DCDFC is the first collaboration model of its kind to offer continuous, uninterrupted care for women and their families during the important childbearing and early child-rearing years. The partners provide continuous, complementary services tailored to the needs of each family, with a primary focus on residents of Wards 5 and 6. In addition to the Family Health and Birth Center, DCDFC is comprised of:
Healthy Babies Project
The Healthy Babies Project, Inc., was incorporated in 1990 and is a community-based support system for pregnant and parenting women in Washington, DC. The mission of Healthy Babies Project is to reduce the dangerously high rates of infant deaths, illnesses, low birth weight, and repeat pregnancies as well as improve the health, education, and parenting out coming for at-risk mothers, fathers and infants, by reaching out to high-risk, low-income, pregnant and parenting women, men, and their families. Services include pregnancy testing and family planning counseling; risk assessment and case management; home visits; crisis intervention; classes in childbirth and health education; smoking cessation, prenatal yoga, and parenting classes; and referrals to emergency services and mothers’ and fathers’ support groups.
United Planning Organization Early Childhood Development Center
The mission of the United Planning Organization is to provide leadership, support, and advocacy to low income and other eligible residents of Washington, DC, to assist them in achieving self sufficiency and self determination, and to enhance generally the quality of life in the local community. The United Planning Organization operates the Early Childhood Development Center at the Developing Families Center location. The center serves infants and toddlers, ages 0-3. Priority enrollment is for families enrolled in HBP and the Family Health & Birth Center, and for families residing in the surrounding community. The UPOEDC provides comprehensive services to meet the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional concerns and interests of children and families.
For more information on our partners, please visit their websites:
DC Developing Families Center:
http://www.developingfamilies.org/index.html
Healthy Babies Project:
http://www.healthybabiesproject.org/index.htm
United Planning Organization: