New Haven Healthy Start Healthy Start is an initiative that builds on the principles of innovation, community commitment and involvement, increased access, service integration and personal responsibility. Healthy Start supports a community-driven approach to reducing infant mortality. Healthy Start communities have developed nine models of effective intervention, along with community specific strategies to implement the models successfully.
Local implementation varies at each site.
The model aim to raise awareness of the problem of infant mortality, promote healthy behaviors and motivate mothers to enter prenatal care early. NHHS seeks to improve the quality of life for all children who are born in New Haven neighborhoods. The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven works in partnership with NHHS and serves as the fiduciary for the grant. Our goal is to empower and build neighborhood support for New Haven families by developing a partnership with service providers to increase access to and utilization of health services and by establishing a forum where we can educate ourselves and speak out on our own behalf. Together we can work to empower ourselves and our communities by drawing on the best of our cultures and traditions.