Healthy Babies – Healthy Relationships – A Project to Promote Financial and Medical Security for Children

In the Healthy Babies—Healthy Relationships Project (HBHR), the Center for Policy Research (CPR) experimented with the delivery of information about paternity and child support to expectant and new parents in two settings that serve low-income and never-married parents: (1) CenteringPregnancy (Centering) Programs, which replace conventional, individual, prenatal care with a groupcentered model that integrates health assessment, education, and support into a 10- to 12-session curriculum; and (2) nutrition classes associated with the Special Supplemental  Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which attempts to increase the well-being of children by offering low-income pregnant and new mothers monthly vouchers to purchase foods high in essential nutrients.