Healthy Start EPIC Center
Earlier this year, the HS TASC launched its third CIGNAL Project focused on Maternal and Child Health (MCH) in Rural Communities. CIGNAL for MCH in Rural Communities aims to enhance and strengthen the capacity of Healthy Start grantees to identify and execute strategies to improve MCH services in rural communities. On March 23, 2022, TASC […]
The Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) is partnering with Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT) to launch the ROOTT Learning Academy focused on exploring structural and social determinants of health! The goal of the Learning Academy is to develop a progressive understanding of the Structural Determinants of Health and how they have led […]
The Healthy Start TASC has partnered with the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) to provide a three-part series related to prenatal alcohol exposure. During the first webinar, which took place in September 2021, Kathy Mitchell of NOFAS provided an overview of the historical view on alcohol and pregnancy; the current research on how […]
Last year, for the first time in Healthy Start history, funding was made available to grantees to explicitly address the upstream, social and structural barriers that create disparities and inequities. Twenty-one Healthy Start grantees embraced this challenging task and worked with their communities over six months to create community-based, community-driven action plans. To culminate this […]