We are currently accepting applications for the following positions: Connect Representative – apply here! Nurse-Family Partnership Nurse Home Visitor – apply here! Fatherhood Support Specialist – apply here! Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Nurse Abstractor – apply here! NewboRN Home Visiting Program Weekend Family Partner – apply here!
Latest News
A Call to Action: Help Our Community’s Babies Have More First Birthdays
Be a part of community-driven action to make meaningful changes to improve services, systems, and resources for families and reduce stillbirths and infant deaths. Connect with us to be on our Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team (FIMR)! For information about FIMR, click here. For information about the Case Review Team (CRT), click here. For … Continue reading “A Call to Action: Help Our Community’s Babies Have More First Birthdays”
Community Doula Program Assessment
Healthy Start has teamed up with the University of Florida Masters of Public Health students to develop a Community Doula Program Needs Assessment and we need your help! We’d like for you to distribute the assessment to pregnant women and new mothers using the link or QR code provided below. Perhaps you are pregnant or … Continue reading “Community Doula Program Assessment”
Recall of Certain Powdered Infant Formula – FDA
February 2022: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a press release alerting consumers to avoid purchasing or using certain powdered infant formula products produced in Abbott Nutrition’s facility in Sturgis, Michigan. The FDA is advising consumers not to use Similac, Alimentum, or EleCare powdered infant formulas if: The first two digits of the … Continue reading “Recall of Certain Powdered Infant Formula – FDA”
Free Zoom CPR & Home Safety Training
The NewboRN Home Visiting program (NHV) has partnered with Health & Safety Training Services to provide new parents that participated in NHV with the knowledge they need to keep their little ones safe. In the class you will learn infant CPR from a trained professional as well basic home safety for infants. There is no … Continue reading “Free Zoom CPR & Home Safety Training”
Vaccine Decision Making for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women
Should you get the COVID-19 vaccine if you are pregnant or are breastfeeding? Click here for more information.
Press Release
The Hernando and Pasco Substance Exposed Newborn Task Forces are hosting Education & Beyond: Supporting Substance Exposed Newborn Communities Virtual Workshop series, April, 2021. Please click here for more information.
2020-2021 Legislative Materials
Click on the following links to download the materials we’ve been sharing with our local legislators this year about Healthy Start. 2020 Annual Report Investing in a Healthy Start for Florida’s Children FAHSC White Paper – Who Are We County Profiles
Florida’s Healthy Start is Celebrating 30 Years of Healthier Babies in 2021
HHS Released Action Plan and Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Improve Maternal Health
On December 3, HHS released an important HHS Action Plan and announced a partnership to reduce maternal deaths and disparities that put women at risk prior to, during, and following pregnancy. The HHS Action Plan provides a roadmap for addressing risk factors, improving the quality of and access to maternity and postpartum care, and supporting … Continue reading “HHS Released Action Plan and Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Improve Maternal Health”