Oregon Health Authority is encouraging families with newborns to take advantage of the free, optional nurse home visiting program known as Family Connects Oregon, which continues its roll-out in communities statewide. One of the early adopters of the Family Connects model in 2020 was the Marion & Polk Early Learning Hub, which operates the home visiting program through a partnership that includes Marion County Public Health, Polk County Public Health, Family Building Blocks/Healthy Families, Lancaster Family Medical and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The collaborative’s two Family Connects nurses, Monica Aguiar and Araya Garcia of Marion County Health & Human Services, say the process for using Family Connects services is straightforward.