Waypoint Family Resource Center
Milford Families, contact:
Email: NashuaFRC@waypointnh.org
Phone:
Waypoint Warm Line: 1-800-640-6486
(Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm)
Links
Website: www.waypointnh.org
Waypoint Family Resource Center offers an array of family support services for families with children ages 0-21. Services are designed to help your family through any type of challenge, whether it’s first-time parenting, making ends meet, parental substance misuse, housing or employment instability, child wellness, education, or emotional stressors.
** Waypoint FRC is moving! They will be all set up in their new office space beginning March 11, 2024 — 60 Main Street, Suite 240, Nashua, NH
Here are just some of the services and resources Waypoint offers:
- Home visiting (where we come to you)
- Support & education groups & classes (virtual and in person)
- Playgroups and library of family resources
- Grandparent / kinship navigators
- Help with prenatal care and early childhood development
- Help for parents/caregivers who have substance use disorder
- Help for families of children who have high needs
- Connections to community resources
- Friends!
Services may be provided in the comfort of your family home, or anywhere else you feel comfortable in the community.
DURING PREGNANCY, our team of home visitors offer support in the areas of:
- Prenatal healthcare
- Nutrition
- Smoking cessation
- Counseling
- Family planning
- Preparing for your new baby
- Early childhood development
- Alcohol and drug prevention
- Access to community resources
- And anything else to optimize
DURING EARLY YEARS, our team of nurses, parent educators and counselors offer support in areas of:
- Post-partum
- Well baby care
- Nutrition for mother and baby
- Breast/bottle feeding
- Screening for post-partum and maternal depression
- Infant brain development
- Early childhood development
THROUGH SCHOOL YEARS and beyond, we’ll work in partnership with you and your family to set and reach goals and answer any questions you may have along the way in the areas of:
- Effective parenting
- Recreational activities
- Positive discipline technique
- Family planning and contraception
- Life skills including education, work, and finding quality childcare
- School behaviors
- Child development
- Securing a medical home (having a health/wellness plan in place)
Watch the Milford Kids Thrive calendar and Facebook page for updates on Waypoint parent/family classes, support groups, family activities.