Help Me Grow

As a parent, you are your child’s first and most important teacher. The Help Me Grow program offers parents and caregivers services and resources to promote the development of their children and well-being of their family.

* Service Coordination
* Developmental Screenings & Evaluations
* Prenatal & Newborn Visits
* Trained specialist to provide play activities to encourage development
* Center-based and Home-based Early Intervention services
* Speech, Occupational, and Physical Therapies
* Home Visits
* Play group
* Family Support
* Pre-School Assistance
* Car Seat Program
* Interpreting Services

Ohio Buckles Buckeyes is a statewide program. Low income families that do not have a child safety seat can call to find out more information and see if they are eligible for this program.

Help Me Grow also offers a Child Passenger Safety program for anyone in the community who needs assistance with the correct installation of their child's safety seat.

This program is by appointment only. Please call 335-5111, ext. 249 to find out more and to schedule an appointment.

• Expectant, first time mothers
• First time mothers with a child under six months of age
• Children under the age of three who have one parent in active military duty

Children experiencing:
• Health or medical concerns
• Prenatal/neonatal/postnatal complications
• Environmental concerns

Children with significant delays as demonstrated by failure to achieve the following milestones:

• Sit independently by 8 months
• Crawl independently by 10 months
• Walk independently by 14 months
• Babbling by 6 months old
• Pointing at 1 year
• Understanding simple commands by 1 year
• 10 word vocabulary by 18 months old
• Eating with spoon or drinking with cup independently by 18 months
• Toilet training by 3 years old

Children with established disabilities, such as:
• Blindness or deafness
• Cerebral palsy, epilepsy, etc.
• Autism
• Any syndrome
• Mental retardation

8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday - Friday

Child Safety Seat Clinics are typically held twice a month. Inspections & Distributions are done by appointment only.
Call 335-5111, ext. 249 to make an appointment.

Fayette County Health District
317 S. Fayette Street
Washington C.H., OH 43160
General Phone: 740-335-5910
Environmental Health: 740-333-3590
WIC: 740-333-3552
Help Me Grow: 740-335-5111
General Fax: 740-333-3528