Triqana Powell is a case manager with the Magnolia Project, providing services to moms before, during and after pregnancy in Jacksonville’s highest risk infant mortality zip codes. She joined the Coalition in October 2016 as part of the Healthy Families Jacksonville program, moving into the Magnolia position in November 2020. Triqana is inspired by the… Read More

The Magnolia Project celebrated National Women’s Health Week May 9-15th with activities around nutrition, mental health, health screenings, fatherhood and concluded with an open house highlighting the services the program provides. Thank you to special guests, representatives from Rep. Al Lawson’s office, Linae Parkinson and Tony Hill, and Board Chair Pauline Drake, Esq., for attending… Read More

The Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition was one of eight initiatives featured in a brief entitled “Embedding Equity in Early Childhood Initiatives.” As part of the larger Early Childhood Health Equity Landscape Project, the brief highlights how these initiatives have set equitable goals and outcomes, the supports that they and their communities received, the barriers… Read More

“Because of what I learned about my personal leadership style, I understand that if I make adjustments to how I deal with people I can possible bring change in my community.” Two Magnolia Project participants graduated from the Make a Difference! Leadership Academy on February 3, 2021, the first virtual class to complete the program.… Read More

The Coalition elected new officers and members at its annual meeting January 28. The Coalition also released the 2020 Annual Report. The new 2021 Board officers are: Pauline Drake, Esq., Chair. Judge Drake is a retired Duval County judge. Mark Hudak, MD, Vice Chair. Dr. Hudak is a neonatologist and chair of pediatrics at the… Read More