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Healthy Families New York (HFNY) is a community-based prevention program that provides intensive home visitation services to improve the health and well-being of children at risk for abuse and neglect. The program focuses on promoting positive parenting skills, preventing child abuse and neglect, ensuring optimal prenatal care and child health and development, and increasing parents’ self-sufficiency. Research finds that HFNY families have improved child birth weight outcomes and fewer reports of child abuse and neglect.