Board and Staff

Sandra (“Sandy”) Glazer, MSW, LCSW, is the Executive Director for the Capital Area Healthy Start Coalition.  She has over 25 years experience in community and public health, working the last 10 years in Maternal and Child Health.  She has worked directly with pregnant women and families of infants and children providing health education, parenting education, breastfeeding education, mental health counseling, and care coordination.  While she was a supervisor for Healthy Start program service providers, she was responsible for QA and QI there, staff training, client services, and designed training and curriculum aimed at reducing infant mortality and increasing positive parenting.

Sandy most recently has worked as a Consultant with the Infant, Maternal, and Reproductive Health section of the Florida Department of Health where she was involved in policy and programming design and implementation for programs with the goal of positive pregnancy outcomes.  She is certified as a parenting educator, a childbirth educator, a tobacco treatment specialist, a lactation counselor, and a CPR/BLS instructor.

Sandy is an FSU graduate, and has lived in Tallahassee for 20 years.  She is the proud mother of two wonderful adult children, Jasmine and Kody.   Sandy states she is “Very excited be here at the Coalition, continuing in the important area of maternal and child health with goals of reducing infant mortality.  Working in this field is my passion!”

Email:   sandy@CapitalAreaHealthyStart.org

Phone:  850.488.0288 ext 110

Danielle Brown joined the team in 2016 as the MomCare Advisor. She is now serving Capital Area Healthy Start Coalition as the Intake and Outreach Coordinator.  Originally, from Dania Beach, Florida, Danielle holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Thomas University and a Masters In Social Work from Florida State University.  Danielle has always had a passion to help children and families.  Her experience includes 7 years with Florida Department of Health in Immunizations and ending her time there working with School Health.  In her spare time she really enjoys the beach, movies and especially Cruising.

Email:   Danielle@CapitalAreaHealthyStart.org

Phone:  850.488.0288 ext 109

Kyra Adams, MSW is the Program Supervisor of the Leon County Healthy Start Program. She previously worked as the program manager at the Leon County Healthy Start before transitioning to Program Supervisor with the Coalition.

In 2007, while completing her bachelor’s degree in social work, Kyra interned with Healthy Start. There were no available positions once her internship ended, so she began working for the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) as an Abuse Counselor. While working at DCF, Kyra returned to school to complete her master’s degree in social work at Florida State University.

She found her way back to Healthy Start and began working there summer 2012, one day before graduating with her MSW. Kyra worked as a Care Coordinator for two years before leaving to expand her experience in social work. However, her true passion and target population has always been women and children, so she returned to Healthy Start July 2015 and has been with the agency ever since.

She is the proud mom of two boys, Kyran and Carson, and in her spare time she enjoys quality self-care.

Email: Kyra@CapitalAreaHealthyStart.org

Phone: (850) 488-0288, ext 106