Start in life

Early help includes services for parents from pregnancy onwards as well as for families with small children. Practical help and advice are provided. If necessary, referrals and support to further help can also be provided. Early prevention services are aimed in particular at families who feel insecure and overwhelmed in their everyday lives with a child and who would like support. All early prevention services are free of charge and voluntary.

The aim of early intervention is to provide parents and children with the best possible health promotion during the sensitive period of pregnancy, birth and within the first year of life, and to support the development of a good parent-child bond from the very beginning.

In the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg, there are many offers in the area of early help. Numerous institutions, providers and services offer a wide range of services in the form of information, counselling, mediation and practical everyday support for parents from pregnancy onwards and for young families. Professionals from the health care system, youth welfare and counselling centres exchange information in local early prevention networks and work together in an interdisciplinary manner. This makes it possible to find the right referral if necessary. Health professionals in early prevention are, for example, family midwives, family child nurses and maternity nurses.