Help Me Grow – Long Island

Launched in January 2018, Help Me Grow – Long Island is a FREE resource connecting families and providers to community resources and child development information in Nassau and Suffolk counties, with the mission of promoting optimal development of Long Island’s young children. HMG-LI provides free, virtual, ongoing support to families to meet the needs of their young children, and trains providers to use developmental screens with the families they serve. Help Me Grow – Long Island isn’t an agency, but a partnership based on a national model for organizing existing agencies with the goal of more efficiently and effectively reaching and helping at-risk children. HMG-LI is coordinated by Docs for Tots and is connected to United Way of Long Island’s 2-1-1 phone system.

To use Help Me Grow – Long Island:

Call our Bilingual Family Resource Specialists at 516-548-8924 OR dial 2-1-1, select your language, then press 7 for Help Me Grow
Visit our website for a free developmental screen
Email us at info@hmgli.org
If you are a provider, you complete the HMGLI Universal Provider Referral Form and email to info@hmgli.org or fax to 516-217-1351
If you work with young children and want to provide developmental or social emotional screens, please contact info@hmgli.org

Important Materials:

Promoting Social Emotional Development and Early Childhood Mental Health in Young Children: A Roadmap – released Jan 2022
HMG-LI 2nd Annual Report part 2 – released Oct 2021
HMG-LI 2nd Annual Report part 1 – released May 2021
HMG-LI 1st Annual Report – released March 2020
HMG-LI Frequently Asked Questions
Community Screening Partners trained by HMG-LI
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For Families:

Help Me Grow – Long Island is a proud partner of Bright By Text! Bright by Text is a national parent text service that helps parents and caregivers make the most out of the time with their children. Messages illustrate fun and easy activities, providing positive parenting tips and resources, and even video content to guide a child’s development. Learn more and sign up.

Help Me Grow – Long Island Leadership Team:

Catholic Health Services of Long Island, CDC’s Learn the Signs. Act Early Ambassador (NY), Child Care Council of Nassau, Child Care Council of Suffolk, Children’s Medical Center at NYU Winthrop Hospital, Choice for All, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Docs for Tots, Family and Community Engagement at LIU, Family Place Libraries, Family Support Long Island at Molloy College, Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, Healthy Steps Program at Nassau University Medical Center, Hofstra University Department of Health Professions and Human Services, Sun River Health, Institute for Parenting at Adelphi University, Long Island Federally Qualified Health Centers, Long Island FQHC WIC Program, Long Island Pre-K Initiative, Nassau BOCES, Nassau County Department of Health Division of Maternal Child Health, Nassau Library System, Northwell Health, Northwell Health Visits-Family Connects Long Island, NYS Council on Children and Families, QUALITYstarsNY, Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook WIC, Suffolk County Department of Health Early Intervention, Suffolk County Executive, United Way of Long Island