Healthy Beginnings provides FREE health & developmental screenings to ALL children in Central Oregon birth to age 6. No income or insurance qualifications, offering assessments to every child so they can enter kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed.
Screening and referring children is our method - but connecting kids and families with needed services is our goal. We believe that every child deserves a healthy beginning and that parents want the best for their kids. We also know that parents don't always have all the answers - but our team of dedicated staff and wonderful volunteers often have suggestions that make a big difference in the life of the child. Healthy Beginnings is program under the High Desert Education Service District and proud to be a community impact partner with United Way of Deschutes County.
Every child deserves to enter kindergarten ready to learn, contribute and thrive.
It's estimated that nearly 40% of children enter kindergarten with a barrier to success. By providing FREE screenings to all families, Healthy Beginnings works to identify these barriers and connect families to life changing services; helping to ensure children enter school ready to succeed.
So, who shows us the way? In the early years, much of a child’s health and well-being is a puzzle. When our children have no, or very limited language, information we receive – even critical details – is provided in real time, and only in dribs and drabs. Yet, it’s those early years that are the most beneficial to ensuring the brightest future for our children.
We are here to solve some of this parental mystery by providing early health details, answers to questions, and above all else, peace of mind.
Each year, our health and development screenings cover the physical, social, emotional and developmental life of hundreds of children. We use standardized, state-of-the-art screening tools, and our experts are highly trained professionals in their area of expertise. Remarkably, every child in the tri-county area has access to this for free...because the future well-being of our community is priceless. Aren’t we lucky?
