What We Do
Capital Area Healthy Start is dedicated to connecting new or expecting moms, fathers, and families with young children to community programs that help with pregnancy and parenting. Our goals are to improve maternal and infant health and to ensure that all families have access to care, healthy pregnancy education, child development education, breastfeeding education, women’s health education & support, and care coordination.
Our History
Healthy Start Coalitions were created when Governor Lawton Chiles and the First Lady convened a group of community leaders and challenged them to build local coalitions to reduce Florida’s alarmingly high infant mortality rate.
Healthy Start builds on Governor Chiles’ experience as chairman of the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality and helps at-risk mothers receive the care they need for a healthy pregnancy and baby.
The Florida Legislature created Healthy Start in 1991. The Capital Area Healthy Start Coalition, Inc. was created on February 6, 1992. Thirty-two coalitions across the state of Florida work within their local communities to solve maternal and child health problems. Since the inception of Healthy Start, infant mortality has dropped by as much as 20 percent.
We, at Healthy Start, conduct several programs to help expecting and new mothers, those who may become pregnant, and all involved family members and loved ones.
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