Healthy Start Initiative

The Healthy Start Initiative program is a health education program focusing on the reduction of infant mortality.  The program is designed to orient women who are pregnant or preparing to become pregnant, as well as interested family/significant others. 

The program consists of five lessons on prenatal care training presented by facilitators in a community-based setting.  The sessions are gender and culturally relevant, and include lectures, instructional materials, group discussion, videos, and educational handouts.

The sessions include information on pregnancy, nutrition, risk reduction, prenatal care, infant feeding and the impact of mother’s behavior on her health and her baby.  Each session will meet for 1.5 to 2 hours.

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