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The Happy Child Program has made over 50 million visits
Published in
Mar 02, 2022 01:36 PM
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Jun 23, 2022 10:55 AM
- Credit: MAURO VIEIRA/MIN.CIDADANIA
The Government of Brazil has the largest home visitation program for monitoring early childhood in the world, the Happy Child Program (Programa Criança Feliz). More than 50 million visits have already been made to ensure that every child develops to the best of their abilities.
The program seeks to strengthen family ties, helping pregnant women prepare for birth and for first-time care, supporting the pregnancy and informing families about their rights to health and social services, to a minimum income, and also about how to access those rights.
The program also seeks to integrate actions in the areas of education, justice, culture and human rights and strengthen local, state and national services to provide the adequate care for families with pregnant women, children under age 3 and children with disabilities under 6.
The home visiting program has trained 20,000 home visitors and 3,000 supervisors, to reach nearly more than a half million children and pregnant women in all 27 states of Brazil. The plan is to reach more than two million beneficiaries by 2023.
In 2019, Criança Feliz won the prestigious Wise Awards for being one of the most innovative initiatives in the field. It’s the result of Brazil's conviction that supporting pregnant women and children since their conception foster healthy families and a strong society.