Program Mission

DRU/Mondawmin (DRUM) Healthy Families is committed to providing strength based quality support to families with pregnant women and young children from birth to school readiness in order to enhance the lives of the parents and positively impact the safety and development of healthy children.

Core Values

DRU/Mondawmin Healthy Family Core values center around the use of a Family-Centered Approach. This approach acknowledges that families are the primary decision makers regarding their children’s learning experiences and development. Through this approach the following tools are utilized:

• Advocacy: Advocacy is powerful. It can cause positive changes in the lives of the children whose families practice it, as well as within larger circles of children and families in the community.
• Collaboration: All members of a team - those persons designated by the family to provide support - are valuable when working together in the best interest of the child and family. A combination of unique strengths and roles forms the foundation.
• Self Reliance: Each caregiver has a right and responsibility to maintain his/her own family.
• Natural Environments: Families and children get support within, and relevant to, the places and activities that impact their lives.