Home Visiting

To help give your child the best start in life, The Greater Hazelwood Family Center provides home visiting services to support parents' and caregivers' needs.

Activities, Assessments, and Connection to Services

Services that you will find helpful to your family are connections to many resources:

  • We have a diaper bank, supplemental transportation, education workshops facilitated by various presenters, and assistance with utilities, to name a few.

  • We personalize our family's needs through Home Visits by meeting twice a month to assist with your child's developmental needs using fun and educational activities.

  • One great benefit is the assessments to help track your child's development.

  • We also assist the family with accomplishing goals they would like to achieve using a strength-based approach.

Our Family Development Specialists are certified in the Parents As Teachers Curriculum providing developmentally appropriate activities, cognitive assessments, and social/emotional assessments for your child.

When needed, we help families connect to Early Intervention services while supporting them through the process.

Family Goal Planning

We also empower families during home visits with family goal planning to help you reach the dreams and goals you have for your family.

We create opportunities for families to construct parental resilience when times get tough, and build relationships through social connections. We are each other's biggest support! The benefits of home visiting can last throughout your child's life academically and socially/emotionally.

News & Events

Events

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Resources & Partners

We collaborate with community organizations to individualize the needs of our families to help bridge the gap and provide meaningful and sustainable resources, including:

 

  • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

  • COTRAIC Early Head Start and Head Start Program

  • COTRAIC Emergency Food Pantry

  • Western PA Diaper Bank

  • 412 Food Rescue

  • Circle’s Pittsburgh

  • Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

  • Beverly’s Birthdays

  • Local Food Pantries

  • YMCA

  • Center of Life

  • Hazelwood Initiative

  • Trying Together Buzzword

  • Pittsburgh Playful Collaboration

  • And many more

The Greater Hazelwood Family Center and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Hazelwood Branch partner together on meaningful literacy programs for parents and their children. These programs help to increase literacy and language skills essential to support academic achievement.

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Parks Rx program provides nature-enriched high-quality field trip experiences throughout the city of Pittsburgh. Families have the opportunity to participate in physical activity while bonding with their child, discovering new walking trails, and explore nature.

Our Staff

Come meet our staff:

Contact Us

For more information contact Danielle Gill: dgill@cotraic.org

Greater Hazelwood Family Center
5006 Second Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15207

Phone: 412-904-2005
Fax: 412-904-2729

Referrals

Please complete the form below to refer a potential family for enrollment.

Referral form (PDF)