Help Me Grow Home Visitation And Early Intervention Program | Neighborhood Alliance

Provides a coordinated, community-based infrastructure that promotes trans-disciplinary, family centered services for expectant parents, newborns, infants, toddlers and their families. Help Me Grow provides the following services: - Identifies children with or at risk for developmental delays or disabilities. - Provides screenings for health, hearing, vision and development. - Provides parents with information about their child’s social and emotional development that lays the foundation for later school success. - Assures parents have information on the importance of early childhood health, nutrition, and literacy. - Connects children at age three with appropriate preschool services. Program administered by Lorain County Children and Families Council. In Lorain County, Catholic Charities also is a participating service coordination agency.

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211 Summit

Physical Address

265 Washington Avenue, Elyria, OH 44035

Hours

Varies.

Fax

(440) 277-8107

Application process

Call Help Me Grow Central Intake line at 1-800-755-4769 for more information if you have concerns about an infant or toddler’s language, feeding, walking, handling of toys, seeing, hearing or playing alone or with others. Hospitals, physicians, clinics and daycare centers will often inform parents of services or make a referral to the program on their behalf.

Fee

Services available at no cost for eligible children and families: family assessment, transition services, family support services, developmental screening, developmental evaluation and ongoing assessments and Service coordination.

Eligibility

Any child, ages birth to 3 may be determined eligible based on the following: - If an evaluation of the child’s development is shown to be delayed. - If the child has a medically diagnosed physical or mental condition that has a high chance of resulting in a developmental delay in one or more of the following areas: Cognitive Development, Physical Development, Communication Development, Social/Emotional Development, and Adaptive Development. - If a child is up to six months old born to a single first time mother with an income at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. - If a pregnant first mother has an income at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. - If a mother or father or the child up to three years old is in active military duty.

Languages

Spanish.

Service area

Lorain County, Ohio

Agency info

Neighborhood Alliance

Serves Lorain County and its neighborhoods by meeting basic human needs, enhancing individual and family life and improving neighborhood and community functioning through social and educational services, advocacy, leadership development and community participation.