The Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition was one of eight initiatives featured in a brief entitled “Embedding Equity in Early Childhood Initiatives.” As part of the larger Early Childhood Health Equity Landscape Project, the brief highlights how these initiatives have set equitable goals and outcomes, the supports that they and their communities received, the barriers… Read More

“Because of what I learned about my personal leadership style, I understand that if I make adjustments to how I deal with people I can possible bring change in my community.” Two Magnolia Project participants graduated from the Make a Difference! Leadership Academy on February 3, 2021, the first virtual class to complete the program.… Read More

The Coalition elected new officers and members at its annual meeting January 28. The Coalition also released the 2020 Annual Report. The new 2021 Board officers are: Pauline Drake, Esq., Chair. Judge Drake is a retired Duval County judge. Mark Hudak, MD, Vice Chair. Dr. Hudak is a neonatologist and chair of pediatrics at the… Read More

Tiffany J. Williams began her role at the Coalition as Program Director of NEFL Nurse-Family Partnership in January 2019 and transitioned in April 2019 to a Director of Administration, overseeing the agency’s contracts, professional development and quality assurance. She considers one of her achievements at the Coalition leading the NFP program through a nationally-recognized 90-day… Read More

Our employees and the thousands of families we serve each year are the priority of the Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition during this unprecedented coronavirus outbreak. We are shifting our direct service staff to telephone and virtual home visits (as permitted by our funders and following HIPAA regulations). This will allow our staff to limit… Read More