Hurricane Season 2025:
Resources for Expecting & New Families
Hurricane season is here. We’ve created essential preparation and recovery resources specifically for pregnant women and new parents to help keep your growing family safe.
Since 1992, we have been providing services to every pregnant and new family in Pinellas County. These services include:
Healthy Start Coalition connects with moms at their first OB doctor’s appointment or directly after birth to conduct a screening form to identify whether they or their baby are at risk for adverse health outcomes.
There are multiple home visiting programs in Pinellas County that support families during pregnancy and during the first few years in the comfort of their own home.
Looking for more support? Learn about birth doulas, safe sleep, breastfeeding support, and resources geared towards Healthy Start families in Pinellas.
Measuring Our Success
We strive to reduce infant mortality, improve perinatal outcomes, and women’s health by enhancing behavioral, mental health, and community care systems.
Kids and Parents with Holiday Wishes fulfilled
Reduction of infant mortality
Prenatal Home Visits lead to healthy babies
of newborns are screened for health risks
Safe Sleep Kits provided through Beds 4 Babies
Help us Help Others
Your gift to Healthy Start promotes healthier babies, supported mothers, and involved fathers. Your donation directly aids women and babies, with more than 90% of funds going to care for new families.
Forging Connections Through Partnerships
As Pinellas County’s prenatal and infant care Coalition, we proudly partner with local organizations, businesses, and healthcare professionals to plan, coordinate, and provide high-quality health and education services to pregnant women, expectant fathers, infants, and babies.
The Healthy Start Coalition of Pinellas needs YOUR input to create our 5-Year Service Delivery Plan that will directly impact local families’ health outcomes and well-being. IMMEDIATE ACTIONS REQUIRED: 1. Complete Your Survey (10 minutes) Take the Community Partner survey yourself Forward the link to your team members English: Community Partner Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T62FYNC Spanish: Community […]
What an incredible gathering we had at our Annual Meeting earlier this summer! The energy was absolutely palpable as our Healthy Start family came together to celebrate our shared mission and chart our path forward. Of course, we took care of important business too: successfully passing our budget and conducting our Board elections. These foundational […]
Thank you to our supporters who register early to ensure their place at this celebratory event! The meeting will be held Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 from 8-10:30am at Ruth Eckerd Hall in the Margarete Heye Great Room! This event has limited attendance to the first 200 registrants and is nearly sold out. If you want […]
Join us for a special evening enjoying flowers, food, and fun at Pistil House while benefiting Healthy Start Coalition of Pinellas! WHAT TO EXPECT • Create your own custom spring flower bouquet (self-pay for bouquet creation) • Purchase wine, coffee, and light bites available from Pistil House • Network with community members who share your […]
Victoria, a nervous first-time Spanish-speaking mother, found invaluable support when she was connected with a bilingual Healthy Start Doula. The language barrier had been one of Victoria’s biggest concern about childbirth, worrying she wouldn’t be able to communicate effectively with medical staff during labor. The Healthy Start Doula quickly put those fears to rest, helping Victoria create […]
What is a Doula? A doula is a trained non-medical professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to their client before, during and shortly after childbirth to help them achieve the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible. A doula is an important part of the birth team. The doula builds a relationship with the […]
Thank you to our supporters who register early to ensure their place at this celebratory event! The meeting will be held Wednesday, June 26th from 8-10:30am at Ruth Eckerd Hall in the Margarete Heye Great Room! This event has limited attendance to the first 200 registrants and is nearly sold out. If you want to […]
We are excited to announce that we were selected by Pinellas Community Foundation‘s for a 2 Year Operating Grant! Their generous funding will allow us to redesign the Healthy Start website in Year 1. We will transform how clients interact with our services and resources, particularly our Beds 4 Babies, Doula Care, and Resource Manual. […]
Exciting News! We are thrilled to announce that we are partnering with Champions for Children to bring you the EMPOWER program: Engaging Mothers and others for Positive Outcomes with Early Resources. These services are offered as part of the EMPOWER program, a special collaboration with the Healthy Start Coalition of Pinellas County funded by the Juvenile Welfare Board. Champions is […]
Thank you to our supporters who registered early to ensure their place at this celebratory event. Our 2023 Annual Meeting is sold out! We are excited to celebrate another year of supporting healthy pregnancies, babies and families in Pinellas County to ensure they have the best start in life with us! This year we will honor a […]