Healthy Start
Healthy Start Program
The goal of Healthy Start is to reduce infant mortality and perinatal health disparities by delivering high quality, effective prevention strategies to individuals, families and communities. The program strives to serve families who are at the highest risk for health disparities and adverse outcomes in pregnancy and parenting.
We follow The Five Healthy Start Approaches:
- Improve women’s health before, during and after pregnancy
- Promote quality services, with a focus on required core competencies and standardized interventions
- Strengthen family resilience, by engaging both parents and addressing some of the stressors that underly many disparities in birth outcomes
- Achieve collective impact, serving as a community hub that drives collective improvements
- Increase accountability through quality improvement, performance monitoring and evaluation.
The Healthy Start Work Group helps us achieve these goals within the community.
For more resources, see below:
Virginia Department of Health - http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/family-home-visiting/healthy-start-loving-steps/
Healthy Start Epic Center - http://healthystartepic.org/
Minus 9 – 5 - http://www.minus9to5.org/