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Unique Collaboration
The DC Developing Families Center is a collaboration
of three private, nonprofit health, child development, and
social service providers in a newly renovated building. The
partners provide continuous, complementary services tailored
to the needs of each family, with a primary focus on residents
of Wards 5 and 6.
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DC
Birth Center (DCBC)
The
DC Birth Center was licensed in 2001 and provides well-woman
preventive health services and care for women of all ages;
maternity services and family-centered birth either in a homelike
birthing center or at Washington Hospital Center; family planning
services; STD screening and treatment; pediatric primary care,
including well-child annual exams, immunizations, and treatment
of minor illnesses; and help in applying for health insurance.
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Babies Project (HBP)
The Healthy Babies
Project, Inc., was incorporated in 1990 and is a community-based
support system for pregnant and parenting women in Washington,
DC. Its goal is to improve health, education, and parenting
outcomes for at-risk mothers, fathers, and infants. Services
include pregnancy testing and family planning counseling;
risk assessment and case management; home visits; crisis intervention;
classes in childbirth and health education; smoking cessation,
prenatal yoga, and parenting classes; and referrals to emergency
services and mothers’ and fathers’ support groups.
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Rhonda Waller, PhD
HBP Executive Director |
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Nation's
Capital Child and Family Development (NCCFD)
Founded in 1964, NCCFD operates the DCDFC Child
Development Center serving infants and toddlers. Priority
enrollment is for families enrolled in HBP and the DC Birth
Center, and for families residing in Carver Terrace. NCCFD
provides comprehensive services to meet the intellectual,
physical, social, and emotional concerns and interests of
children and families. It operates 15 other early childhood
centers (6 weeks–5 years); 9 school-age centers (4–12
years), and 24 family child care providers (6 weeks–12
years). NCCFD also provides job training, GED classes, and
a first-time home buyer’s program.
  
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