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• Safe Sleep Campaign For Baby's
• Fetal & Infant Mortality Review
• Healthy Start Case Managemen
• Prenatal Healthy Start Services
• Magnolia Project
• Azalea Project
• Camellia Project
• MomCare
• Quit Smoking Now
• Responsible Fatherhood

About Us

The Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition, Inc. was organized in 1992 as part of a statewide network of community-based organizations to reduce Florida’s high infant mortality and improve the lives of pregnant women and their families. The group is governed by a volunteer board which allocates state funding and provides oversight to local agencies that deliver services to pregnant women and families of newborns. The Coalition covers Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties.

The Coalition is comprised of more than 40 members representing consumers, physicians, local government, business, health care payors, social services, education, civic organizations, public health, nurses, local medical societies, mental health, hospitals, local health planning agencies and midwifery in the five-county area. A 17-member governing board directs Coalition efforts. Standing committees conduct the organization’s activities.

One of 32 community-based maternal and child health groups in the state, the Coalition is supported by the Florida Department of Health, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, donations, grants and other funding sources. In 2010-2011, the Coalition has a total budget of $6.67 million. More than 90 percent of this funding is used to provide direct services to at-risk mothers, infants and families through contracts with community providers, MomCare, the Fetal & Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Project, the Azalea Project and the Magnolia Project, a federal Healthy Start initiative to reduce disparities in birth outcomes. Remaining resources support planning, administration and community-based initiatives such as the Safe Sleep Partnership and Responsible Fatherhood.