Healthy Start Links
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Federal
Healthy Start Initiative
"The Healthy Start Initiative is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Health Resources and Services Administration.... Healthy Start promotes
community-based, culturally competent, family-centered, comprehensive perinatal care and other facilitating services to women, infants, and
their families, and integrates these services into existing systems of perinatal care."
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Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)
"In 1935, Congress enacted Title V of the Social Security Act, The Maternal and Child Health Services Programs--providing a foundation
and structure for assuring the health of mothers and children now for more than 60 years. Today, Title V is administered by the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau as part of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
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U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HRSA)
National Healthy Start
Association (NHSA)
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HMHB Coalition of Camden City
Contact Information
URL: http://www.upenn.edu/prog/hs/links.shtml
Last modified: 5 January 2001
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