Healthy Start Program

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What is Healthy Start?

Ceres Healthy Start Family Resource Center has provided a variety of school and community outreach services since 1996.

The Ceres Healthy Start Program is a school-based family resource center that comprehensively serves all students and families living within the attendance area of the Ceres Unified School District.

Healthy Start’s mission is to strengthen a family’s ability to access services and resources that support health, wellness and education of their children- ultimately promoting the sustainability of a healthy community.

Currently Healthy Start has received a grant from the Stanislaus County Children & Families Commission to continue to offer the “First Steps for Learning Program” This school readiness program targets those families with young children that are not currently enrolled in any type of pre-school, day-care or head start program. Through this program parents learn that all children are “Born to Learn” and that parents play the most important role in their children’s education. Parents also learn that children learn best by those they love.  Ultimately parents discover and understand the concept “Parents as Teachers” begins in the home.

Services Provided: (Program Components)

  • School Readiness Activities

  • Parenting Classes

  • Support group

  • Community Resource and Referrals

  • Resource Library

  • Food and basic need referrals

  • Health Care assistance referral

  • Community Leadership Development

  • Access to Mental Health Clinicians

  • Nutrition Classes Including Preventative Health Care Presentations

  • Interactive Literacy Activities with Parents and Children

  • Computer Lab

  • Free Community Health Clinic

  • Free Immigration Consultation

Services and Training Available for Program Participants

  • Parent Child Interactive Literacy (First Steps for Learning program)

  • Active Parent workshops

  • Nutritional Education

  • CPR-First Aid

  • Car Seat Safety

  • Oral Health Ed. Teeth Varnishing

  • NAMI - (eliminate stigma of mental illness - presentation)

Who is Eligible?  

  • Insured or non-insured individuals including parents with children ages 0-5.

Nereida Hurtado, Ext 1287
Healthy Start 
Coordinator

Brenda Reyes, Ext 1273
Secretary  

Healthy Start 
2491 Lawrence St. 
Ceres, CA 95307

Main Phone: 
(209) 556-1559
Fax: 
(209) 537-6206