The Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition is seeking qualified providers to implement Healthy Start services in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties aimed at addressing the region’s infant mortality rate.   Funding of up to $500,000 per year will be available for implementation of this initiative during the project period (beginning June 1). Click here… Read More

Florida Times-Union reporter Beth Reese Cravey spoke with our CEO Faye Johnson and other community and civic leaders about our local area’s “long battle against a stubbornly high infant mortality rate.” Although Duval County’s overall infant mortality rate has improved over the past four years, there are still a number of disparities in certain ZIP Codes.… Read More

A doula is a non-medical trained person who has direct contact with pregnant women and their families and advises on matters of health education during the perinatal period. Doulas provide in-home health care education to the pregnant mother, husband or significant other, and immediate family members. They are present with the mother throughout the labor… Read More

In Duval County, 80 babies have died over the past five years (2018-2022) due to unsafe sleeping conditions, most of which were preventable. In 2022, nearly 22 percent of infant deaths in Duval County were sleep related; the most common cause being babies accidentally suffocated by bedding or another person while bedsharing. To help mitigate… Read More

The Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition is seeking qualified providers to implement Healthy Start services in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties aimed at addressing the region’s infant mortality rate.   Funding of up to $59,381.26 per year will be available for implementation of this initiative during the project period (beginning June 1). Click here… Read More