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
Michigan	Flint	Genesee County, Michigan Healthy Start Project Genessee County Health Department 630 S. Saginaw Street Flint, MI 48502-1540	Mr. John McKellar, MPA, Project Director	Phone: (810) 424-4352 Fax: (810) 237-6162 jmckellar@gchd.us
Michigan	Grand Rapids	Strong Beginnings GRAAHI, Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences 301 Michigan, NE Suite 400 Grand Rapids, MI 49503	Ms. Peggy Vander Meulen, Project Director	Phone: (616) 331-5838 Fax: (616) 331-5839 peggy.vandermeulen@spectrum-health.org
Michigan	Nazareth	Healthy Babies Healthy Start (Kalamazoo, Michigan) 3299 Gull Road PO Box 42 Nazareth, MI 49074-0042 http://www.kalcounty.com	Ms. Luz del Carmen Sweezy, Program Coordinator	Phone: (269) 373-5165 Fax: (269) 373-5109 lcswee@kalcounty.com
Michigan	Saginaw	Great Beginnings Healthy Start Saginaw County Department of Public Health 1600 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 201 Saginaw, MI 48602 www.saginawpublichealth.org	Ms. Dawn M. Shanafelt, RN, BSN, BA, Program Director	Phone: (989) 758-3853 Fax: (989) 758-3859 dshanafelt@saginawcounty.com
Michigan	Sault Sainte Marie	Healthy Start Michigan Inter-Tribal Council 2956 Ashmun Street Sault Sainte Marie, MI 49783 http://www.itcmi.org	Mr. Rick Haverkate, MPH, Project Director	Phone: (906) 632-6896 Ext.134 Fax: (906) 635-4212 Mobile: 906-440-0072 rickh@itcmi.org
Minnesota	Minneapolis	Twin Cities Healthy Start 250 South 4th Street, Room 510 Minneapolis, MN 55415-1372	Ms. Doriscile Everett-O’Neal, Project Director	Phone: (612) 673-2622 Fax: (612) 673-3866 Doris.O’Neal@ci.minneapolis.mn.us
Mississippi	Marks	Delta Health Partners Healthy Start Initiative P.O. Box 349 Marks, MS 38646	Mr. Robert Bell, Project Director	Phone: (662) 822-2852 dahec1@yahoo.com
Missouri	Kansas City	Kansas City Healthy Start Mother & Child Health Coalition 6400 Prospect, Suite 216 Kansas City, MO 64132 http://www.mchc.net	Jean Craig, PhD, Project Director	Phone: (816) 283-6242 Ext. 225 Fax: (816) 282-0307 jcraig@mchc.net
Missouri	Portageville	Missouri Bootheel Healthy Start 46 Hwy 162 East P.O. Box 250 Portageville, MO 63873 http://www.mbrcinc.org/Health%20Start1.aspx	Ms. Cynthia Dean, BS, Project Director	Phone: (573) 379-2020 Fax: (573) 379-2060 cdean@mbrcinc.org
Missouri	St. Louis	St. Louis Healthy Start Maternal, Child and Family Health Coalition 539 N. Grand Boulevard, Suite 403 St. Louis, MO 63103 www.stl-mcfhc.org	Ms. Regina Robinson, MSW, Director of Programs	Phone: (314) 289-5684 Fax: (314) 289-5681 rrobinson@stl-mcfhc.org
Nebraska	Omaha	Omaha Healthy Start 2201 North 30th Street Omaha, NE 68111 http://www.omahahealthystart.org	Ms. Judith M. Hill, Program Director	Phone: (402) 455-2229 Fax: (402) 455-7306 judithh@cdhcmedical.com
New Jersey	Camden	Camden Healthy Start/HMHB/SNJPC 2600 Mt. Ephraim, Suites 401-403 Camden, NJ 08104 www.snjpc.org	Ms. Joye Rozier, Project Director	Phone: (856) 963-1013 Fax: (856) 963-0989 jrozier@snjpc.org

New Jersey	Trenton	Children’s Futures 28 West State Street, Suite 305 Trenton, NJ 08608	Ms. June R Gray, MSN, RN, Director of Family Support Interventions	Phone: (609) 695-1977 Ext. 110 Fax: (609) 695-5392 Mobile: (609) 559-0686 jgray@childrensfutures.org
New Jersey	Trenton	Isaiah House Healthy Start Mother & Child Program 50 East State Street Trenton, NJ 08625 www.state.nj.us/health	Ms. Margaret Gray, Project Director	Phone: (609) 292-5616 Fax: (609) 292-3580 Margaret.Gray@doh.state.nj.us