HEALTHY START COALITION - HEALTHY START PROGRAM

Description:

Healthy Start is a statewide program whose primary goals are to reduce infant mortality, lower the number of low birth weight and preterm births, and improve maternal and infant health and developmental outcomes.

Services in Miami-Dade County include risk factor screening, care coordination to ensure access to needed services, home visitation, parenting education and support, psychosocial counseling, childbirth education, breastfeeding education and support, tobacco education and cessation counseling. All services offered to clients within Healthy Start are on a voluntary basis and focus on direct contact with participants in their home and/or alternative locations (i.e. schools, clinics, etc.). Referrals are made to service provider clinics around the community through a centralized intake and referral process.

Healthy Start services are also available to women who have experienced a recent miscarriage, pregnancy loss, or infant death and women who recently had an infant placed out of the home by adoption or removal by DCF.

General Information

Hours:

8:00am-5:00pm, Mon-Fri

Intake Process:

Must call to enroll in the program

Program Fees:

Free

Languages:

English, Spanish, Creole

Eligibility:

Pregnant women, families with children under the age of three, women who have experienced a recent loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death), and women who recently had an infant placed out of the home (adoption or removal by DCF).

Is Shelter?

No

Miscellaneous

AKA:

HEALTHY START COALITION OF MIAMI-DADE

Related Resource

Date of Official Change:

January 8, 2024

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#ThrivingMind

Legal Status:

Non-Profit

Year Incorporated:

1999

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