The Healthy Start Coalition was awarded a five-year grant from the Administration for Children & Families to provide comprehensive fatherhood services to dads in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. The Coalition’s “Growing Responsible Fathers” program will strengthen and expand responsible fatherhood, employment, housing, health care, mentoring and recidivism reduction services through case… Read More

Beginning October 1, families enrolled in the  full-pay program will be shifted to Affordable Care Act-compliant plans with premiums up to 95 percent higher than the previous plans. The cost of the subsidized Florida KidCare plans — for those families under 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level — will remain the same ($0, $15 or… Read More

Six barbershops and dozens of families came together on August 9th to bring awareness to infant mortality and have fun before the start of the school year at the Barbers for Babies Infant Mortality and Back to School Jam. The local barber shops participated in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament at the Woodland Acres Boys and… Read More

Fathers play an important role in their children’s lives but this population lacks a comprehensive, coordinated effort to sufficiently address the significant and far-reaching challenges that men in the community face. As a result of this gap, and to ensure children grow up with a responsible father in their life, the Coalition launched a new community-wide… Read More

Congratulations to the winner of our , Cathy Dupont! Cathy shared this picture of father and son, Nicholas Sr. and Jr.: Thank you to everyone who submitted photos! Fathers and father figures play an important role in their children’s lives. So we loved seeing all the great pictures of dads and we encourage you to… Read More