The NEFL Nurse-Family Partnership program celebrated 51 families at a drive-thru graduation on October 2 at UF Health Jacksonville. The families — two-year old children and their mothers — are graduates of the evidence-based home-visiting program that ensures local moms have the education and resources to have a healthy baby. NFP program launched in Jacksonville… Read More

The WELLcome Home program, a universal nurse home visiting initiative in collaboration with Baptist Health and Wolfson Children’s Hospital, is entering it second year of providing new moms with a home visit immediately after hospital discharge to provide critical post-delivery health education and referrals. The program launched in May 2020 for mothers delivering at Baptist… Read More

Update 12.20.2021: Research shows COVID infections can have long-term effects on babies, while only 35 percent of pregnant women are vaccinated Update 8.27.2021: The March of Dimes addresses a number of vaccination myths related to COVID-19 on their News Moms Need blog. Update 8.20.2021: The  National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides helpful, research-based information on… Read More

The results of a study published April 22, 2021 in JAMA Pediatrics found that women diagnosed with COVID-19 during pregnancy have an increased risk of complications and mortality. Pregnant women with COVID had a 22 times greater risk of maternal mortality and four times greater risk of preeclampsia/eclampsia. Read more about the study here. The… Read More

Tiffany Knight is the Azalea Project and Program Performance Director with the Coalition. She joined the agency in June 2019 and oversees one of the Coalition’s longstanding initiatives, Azalea, while also working closely with the Healthy Start providers and Contracts and QI Committee. Tiffany joined the Coalition to continue her work serving high-risk populations and… Read More