Strong Families AZ Home Visiting

Strong Families AZ is Arizona's statewide home-visiting umbrella. It connects expectant parents and families with young children to free home-visiting programs that provide parenting education, child-development support, screenings and connections to community resources. Programs include Nurse-Family Partnership, Healthy Families, Parents as Teachers and other models delivered by local agencies.

Home visiting can bring support to you rather than requiring every need to become another clinic trip. A home visitor can help with infant development, parenting questions, maternal well-being, breastfeeding/feeding support, safe sleep, screenings and referrals to health/community resources depending on the model.

Eligibility depends on the individual home-visiting model, where you live, whether you are pregnant or parenting a young child, age of the child, whether this is your first pregnancy, and other program-specific risk/priority criteria. Not every model is available in every Arizona community.

Services vary by model but can include regular home visits, parenting/child-development education, developmental and family-needs screening, referral/navigation, maternal/infant health education and connections to medical or social services. Nurse-Family Partnership, for example, is nurse-led and targets eligible first-time mothers, while Parents as Teachers and Healthy Families use different eligibility/model rules.

Duration depends on the model. Some begin prenatally and continue into the child's toddler years. Check the model-specific start and end rules rather than assuming one duration for all Strong Families services.

Strong Families AZ describes participating home-visiting programs as free to eligible families.

Use Strong Families AZ's 'Find a Program' / central referral pathway or contact a local participating program. A referral does not guarantee immediate enrollment; the local program confirms eligibility and capacity.

The local program may ask about pregnancy status, child age, whether this is a first birth, address/service area and other eligibility information. Requirements differ by model.

Statewide infrastructure does not mean every model has open capacity in every ZIP code. County/service-area boundaries, model eligibility and staffing can limit access. 'A program exists in Arizona' is different from 'this program currently serves your address and has a slot.'

Home visiting can be used alongside AHCCCS, WIC, doula services and ordinary pediatric/medical care. It does not replace clinical postpartum or mental-health treatment.

Start with Strong Families AZ's program finder/referral system. County/ZIP service area, languages, model, referral route and current capacity are program-level details to confirm directly.

Local programs vary in languages and community focus. Strong Families AZ includes culturally responsive models and local providers, so ask about program-level language and cultural fit rather than assuming a statewide guarantee.

Ask the centralized referral team or local provider about another home-visiting model, Family Resource Centers, Health Start or other community programs. Eligibility differs enough that rejection from one model should not be treated as rejection from all home-visiting support.