The Newborn Home Visiting Program (NHVP) supports new parents within the first weeks of childbirth. It’s part of the New Family Home Visits Initiative.
NHVP health professionals visit families and provide services and tips on many topics, including:
- Development of both your baby and your other children
- Breastfeeding or other infant feeding
- Creating a safe home environment
- Safe sleep
- Mental health for parents
- Connecting to additional resources to help meet your family’s needs
Through the Cribs for Kids initiative, eligible families with a child younger than 3 months may also receive a free crib. NHVP determines eligibility based on need and home Zip Code.
Learn more about the Newborn Home Visiting Program.
Download the Newborn Home Visiting Program brochure.
Eligibility
To be eligible, you must be a first-time parent and live in a Taskforce on Racial Inclusion and Equity (TRIE) neighborhood.
The program is also available to families with a baby 0-to-3 months old who are:
- Living in NYCHA public housing in a TRIE neighborhood, or
- Receiving support from the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), or
- Living in a homeless shelter
How to Sign Up
If you gave birth in a hospital where the program operates, staff will contact you. If you’re interested in signing up, you can call the program directly.
Non-Shelter Residents
- Agency: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Division: Newborn Home Visiting Program
- Phone Number: (718) 637-5235
- Business Hours: Monday - Friday: 9 AM - 5 PM
- Agency: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Division: Newborn Home Visiting Shelter Initiative Model
- Phone Number: (718) 466-7013
- Business Hours: Monday - Friday: 9 AM - 5 PM
