Orange County Healthy Start Program

The Healthy Start Coalition of Orange County is a program dedicated to the health and wellbeing of local pregnant women, infants, fathers, and their families. Healthy Start serves ALL of Florida’s moms, babies, and families! Through education and support programs, nutritional counseling, smoking cessation, and so much more, Healthy Start helps provide a crucial safety net for Florida’s moms, babies, and families!

What Healthy Start Offers:

A Healthy Start begins at your first prenatal care visit at the doctor’s office and/or at the hospital or birthing facility after delivery. Local obstetricians, midwives, and hospital staff administer the Florida Prenatal Screen, which is a simple questionnaire. The purpose of the screening form is to identify risks that could affect your pregnancy or child’s first years. The answers you give to the questions on the screening form will determine whether you or your baby qualify for the special Healthy Start services. Ask your healthcare provider and/or birthing facility about your free Healthy Start screening.

Healthy start provides a variety of services to help women have a healthy baby, including:​

• Pregnancy and baby care education
• Breastfeeding education
• Childbirth classes
• Counseling help to stop smoking
• House calls by health professionals
• Nutrition education
• Mental health counseling
• ​Referrals to other agencies
• Car seat safety and Safe sleep Classes

How to Obtain Healthy Start Services:

To obtain Healthy Start Services, be sure to say YES when offered a Florida Universal Prenatal Screen or Infant Questionnaire:

• At your Prenatal Appointment in your OB/GYN Office
• At Labor and Delivery when your baby is born
• Or you can call your Local Connect Representative at 850-833-9284 ex. 1 or 9. For more information on the Connect Program or fill out the form: Pregnancy Services Orange County | Contact Us

Additional Programs

Nurse Family Partnership Program

The Nurse-Family Partnership Program is for any pregnant woman who is an Orange county, FL, resident, is less than 28 weeks gestation, and will be a first-time mother (first live birth). Learn more at Transforming Lives | Nurse-Family Partnership

Healthy Families, Safe Futures, Early Head Start

For more information on the Connect Program or fill out the form: Pregnancy Services Orange County | Contact Us