Local teens and Coalition staff spent April 14 in Tallahassee, meeting with local legislators and spreading the word about the importance of adolescent health, preconception health and healthy pregnancies. Six teens from the 4Me Teen Health Project joined the Teen Health Project staff, Coalition Executive Director Jennifer Gornto and Board Member and Jacksonville University Professor Emeritus Stephen… Read More

The Magnolia Project is seeking book donations to provide to families in an effort to increase the proportion of parents that read daily to their children. The books will be distributed to pregnant and new moms that are participants at the project. The donated books should be: For children ages 0-3 (greatest need) For children ages… Read More

The fifth  class began in January 2015, preparing another set of local residents with the knowledge and skills to become community leaders. The Make a Difference! Leadership Academy is an effort to train grassroots leaders the was borne out of the  to improve black infant mortality in Jacksonville. The goal of the Make a Difference! Leadership… Read More

The Magnolia Project and Florida State College at Jacksonville sponsored the Mothers and Babies Curriculum Overview Training provided by Dr. Darius Tandon, from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on December 16.   The goal of the six-week course is to prevent postpartum depression or reduce the level of intensity of negative feelings and emotions around… Read More

The National Healthy Start Association’s 16th Annual Spring Conference, Babies, Families, Communities: Moving From Volume to Value, was held in Washington, D.C., February 28 – March 3, 2015. Magnolia Project staff and Board member Joy Burgess attended the three-day conference. The conference provided an array of information and strategies to help communities prevent infant mortality… Read More