National Healthy Start Association


Healthy Start Communications Directory

The table below provides basic information for the federally funded Healthy Start projects throughout the country.
Though we try to keep this as up to date as possible, contact information may change without our knowledge.

Web links may take you directly to a Healthy Start project's web site, or may take you to the project's grantee agency.

Note that not all projects have provided us with web addresses.

STATE CITY HEALTHY START PROJECT /
WEB SITE ADDRESS
CONTACT PHONE. FAX & EMAIL ADDRESS
Indiana 
Hammond 
Northwest Indiana Healthy Start 
6939 Grand Avenue 
Hammond, IN 46323 
Risë Ross Ratney, Project Director 
Phone: (219) 989-3939 
Fax: (219) 989-3930 
rratney@nwihs.com 
Indiana 
Indianapolis 
Indianapolis Healthy Start 
Marion County Health Department 
3838 North Rural Street 
Indianapolis, IN 46205-2390
http://www.mchd.com
Ms. Yvonne Beasley, Project Director 
Phone: (317) 221-2312 or 2347 
Fax: (317-221-2472 
ybeasley@hhcorp.org 
Iowa 
Des Moines 
Des Moines Healthy Start Project 
1111 9th Street, Suite #320 
Des Moines, IA 50314 
http://www.vnsdm.org
Ms. Darby Taylor, Project Director 
Phone: (515) 557-9012 
Fax: (515) 288-0437 
darbyt@vnsdm.org 
Kansas 
Wichita 
Healthy Babies 
Sedgwick County Health Department 
434 N. Oliver, Suite 110 
Wichita, KS 67208 
http://www.sedgwickcounty.org/healthdept/healthybabies.asp
Ms. Susan E. Wilson, BGS, Program Director 
Phone: (316) 660-7386/7433 
Fax: (316) 691-8473 
sewilson@sedgwick.gov 
Kentucky 
Louisville 
Louisville Metro Healthy Start 
Louisville Metro Dept. of Public Health & Wellness 
400 East Gray Street 
Louisville, KY 40201 
http://www.louisvilleky.gov/Health/PersonalandPopulation/healthystart.htm
Nazenin Assef, Project Director 
Phone: (502) 574-5963 
Fax: (502) 574-5650 
nazenin.assef@louisvilleky.gov 
Kentucky Williamsburg
Voices of Appalachia Healthy Start 
114 N. Second Street 
Williamsburg, KY 40769 
Ms. Peggy L. Henderson, Project Director
Phone: (606) 549-9296 
Fax: (606) 549-8946 
peggy.henderson@ky.gov
Louisiana 
Baton Rouge 
Family Road Healthy Start 
323 East Airport Avenue 
Baton Rouge, LA 70806 
http://www.familyroadgbr.org/index.cfm?md=
Ms. Karla Sayer Wilburn, L.C.S.W., Program Manager 
Phone: (225) 201-8888 Ext. 3030 
Fax: (225) 927-1010 
kwilburn@familyroadgbr.org 
Louisiana 
Bossier City 
Healthy Start ABCs 
North Louisiana AHEC 
1513 Doctors Drive Suite 2 
Bossier City, LA 71111 
www.nlahec.org
Ms. LaRhonda Parker Coleman, Project Director 
Phone: (318) 746-4644 
Fax: (318) 764-4677 
rcoleman@nlahec.org 
Louisiana 
Lafayette 
The Family Tree Healthy Start 
4540 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy, Suite B-220 
Lafayette, LA 70508 
http://www.thefamilytree.ws
Ms. Glynis DeRoche, LCSW, Project Director 
Phone: (337) 295-7021 
Fax: (337) 295-7024 
glynis@acadianafamilytree.org 
Louisiana 
New Orleans 
Healthy Start 
New Orleans Health Department 
1300 Perdido Street, #8E18 
New Orleans, LA 70114 
Ms. Charlotte Parent, Program Director 
Phone: (504) 658-2809 
Fax: (504) 658-2522 
cmparent@cityofno.com 
Maryland 
Baltimore 
Baltimore City Healthy Start, Inc. 
2521 N. Charles Street 
Baltimore, MD 21218 
http://www.baltimorehealthystart.org
Ms. Natasha Ramberg, Project Director 
Phone: (410) 396-7318 
Fax: (410) 547-9018 
natasha.ramberg@baltimorecity.gov 
Massachusetts 
Boston 
Boston Healthy Start Initiative 
35 Northampton Street 
Miranda/Creamer Building, Suite 604 
Boston, MA 02118 
Ms. Rosie Munoz-Lopez, Project Director 
Phone: (617) 534-7828 
Fax: (617) 534-5179 
rmunozlopez@bphc.org 
Massachusetts 
Worcester 
Worcester Healthy Start Initiative 
Great Brook Valley Health Center 
19 Tacoma Street 
Worcester, MA 01605 
http://www.worcesterhealthystart.org/
Mr. Mike Portuphy, MPH, CHES Project Director 
Phone: (508) 854-2124 
Fax: (508) 854-2133 
george_portuphy@greatbrook.org
Michigan 
Detroit 
Detroit Healthy Start 
1151 Taylor Street #6, Room 111 
Detroit, MI 48202 
Ms. Carolynn Rowland, Ph.D., Project Director 
Phone: (313) 876-4902 
Fax: (313) 876-0863 
rowlandc@health.ci.detroit.mi.us 

           

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