Health Department

CONTACT INFORMATION: Our administration office at 10777 Main Street in Fairfax is open during regular business hours 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday. Clinic services are not offered at this location.
703-246-2411 TTY 711
10777 Main Street
Fairfax, VA 22030
Gloria Addo-Ayensu, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of Health

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Stable Families, Thriving Futures

The Stable Families Thriving Futures program features an evidence-based health educationStable Families Thriving Futures logo curriculum to improve the immediate and long-term health, educational, employment and financial outcomes of pregnant and parenting teens and young adults in Fairfax County. The program:

  • Utilizes a peer group education program, creating a network of support
  • Provides whole-family case management supports
  • Coordinates access to other programs the family might need including Maternal-Child Health, nutritional support (WIC), housing and food 
  • Partners with families to ensure referrals to specialized health services such as mental health services, substance abuse disorder services, and domestic violence prevention, as needed

Meet Reyna, a Stable Families, Thriving Futures program participant.

Fostering Life Skills in Young Parents

Learn how to be a parent and how to create successful co-parenting relationships. The program helps build the knowledge an expectant parent needs in order to feel empowered, responsible, and confident.

  • All about the responsibility of parenting and how to rise to the challenge
  • The health benefits of successful co-parenting relationships
  • How to spend quality time with your child

Young parents can make sustained progress toward educational goals both in high school and beyond - all while meeting their child's needs. The program helps create an educational foundation for participants:

  • Stay in school and achieve even higher grades
  • Create a plan to continue education after high school - college, technical training, or career training
  • Become an even more confident and productive student
  • Build self-esteem

Get the financial skills needed to create a solid economic foundation for a young family.

  • Understand the financial responsibilities of parenting
  • Feel confident in the ability to financially provide for a child
  • Get financial basics on household budgeting, spending and saving
  • Create a pathway to self-sufficiency and enhance ability to take productive control of personal financials

Understand how to navigate and advocate for the family's health needs. The program provides health literacy skills needed to:

  • Advocate for the child's health needs
  • Take charge of one's own health
  • Understand medical fact versus misinformation
  • Enhance sexual and emotional health

The ability of young parents to live satisfying, productive lives depends largely on their effectiveness as communicators and decision makers. The program curriculum:

  • Enhances a young parent's ability deal with stress, and to cope with discrimination
  • Learn how to communicate your values to your child
  • Creates and maintain positive relationships
  • Teaches healthy conflict resolution, how to manage anger, and communicate effectively with a partner

Program Stories

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See the program in action

Watch this video to see the predecessor program to Stable Families, Brighter Futures.

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Contact Us

Victoria Garcia

HDStableFamilies@fairfaxcounty.gov

victoria.garcia@fairfaxcounty.gov

571-546-6137 | 703-246-2411


The Stable Families, Thriving Futures project is funded by a federal grant provided by the U.S. Department of Labor in the amount of $1,000, 000.  100% of these funds is used for the project.

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