Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Healthy Start H ealthy Start, Northwest Tennessee is a home-visitation program. It is designed to help first-time parents with children from birth to three years of age better meet the challenges and adjustments of family life.
Participation is voluntary for eligible families.
Healthy Start serves Benton, Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Obion, and Weakley counties. The birth of a baby causes many physical and emotional changes. A home visitor will assist parents by answering questions about their feelings and health needs. One important goal of the home visitor in the first weeks and months of the infant's life is to help the mother, father or other primary caregiver bond with the infant. The first months and first few years of children's lives are critical in their growth and development.