Empowering women to achieve healthy pregnancies and have healthy children, which allows families to be successful and build a strong community.

What is Healthy Babies–Healthy Start*?
Healthy Babies–Healthy Start is a team effort by the community to reduce the high fetal and infant mortality rate in Kalamazoo.

Why Outreach?
The goal of Healthy Babies–Healthy Start is to help women have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.

• Outreach Specialists are trained to help families connect with community resources.
• Families who live in the 49007 and 49001 (and 49048 west of Sprinkle) zip code areas may be eligible to receive help.
• If you are pregnant or have children 2 years old or younger, an Outreach Specialists may be able to help you.

Too often families are faced with difficult times.
Life is stressful enough. Pregnancy and parenting can increase the stress you already feel. Kalamazoo has many resources to help. We are specially trained to help you select and connect with the right ones.

• Do you need food to help you get through the month?
• Are you pregnant and need to get prenatal care but don’t know where to go or how to pay for it?
• Do you need a pregnancy test? The Outreach Specialists can provide free, confidential tests at our office or in your home. Call us for an appointment.

Calling us early in pregnancy can
improve your baby's health.

Many babies don’t make it past the first year of life.
Some of these deaths can be prevented.

• Put infants in their own bed, on their back for sleeping with no pillows or blankets near by.
• A healthy baby starts with a healthy pregnancy.
• Pregnant women need to start prenatal care early in pregnancy for the best birth outcomes.
• Smoking can increase the risk of low-birth weight & prematurity, the leading cause of infant death.

Do you know someone who needs information or needs access to resources? Help connect them with a Healthy Babies–Healthy Start Outreach Specialists listed on the right today.

*Healthy Babies–Health Start is supported Supported in part by project H49MC00047 from the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social security Act)