Several years after completing an education and awareness campaign around black infant mortality, staff reported to the Coalition membership at the April 18 meeting on how they have taken the initiative to the next step: building community capacity to address infant mortality. Faye Johnson, Magnolia Project Director, presented one of the newest initiatives, the Make a… Read More

Coalition Board members, staff and community leaders participated in the 14th Annual Spring Conference of the National Healthy Start Association (NHSA) April 6-9 in Washington, DC. This year’s conference highlighted opportunities for advocacy expanding health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Joy Burgess, RN, MSN, chair of the Coalition’s Community Advocacy and Public… Read More

Confused about options currently being considered by the Florida Legislature for expanding health care coverage to the uninsured? The Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy has put together a side-by-side comparison of the plans. Both the Senate and House have rejected the option of expanding Medicaid as a strategy for extending coverage to uninsured… Read More

Decked out in their bright green BrdsNBz shirts, the Coalition’s Teen Leaders traveled to Tallahassee along with Healthy Start staff and board members on April 9 for Children’s Week. The two teens, Jada and Jheri, attended a Teen Town Hall in the morning and a teen advocacy workshop afternoon. The sisters participated in the Peer Health Advocates program and were… Read More

April is National Autism Awareness Month. An estimated one in 88 children in the United States are affected by an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The direct cause for ASDs is unknown. Children can be diagnosed with an ASD as early as 18 months. The American Academy of… Read More