The Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) is pleased to announce that the applications for the two Spring Healthy Start cohorts – a Fatherhood Cohort and a Fourth Trimester Cohort – are now open.
Please only complete an application if you are prepared to commit to the following:
- Participate in the cohort from January 2023 through May 2023
- Join a minimum of four of the five scheduled 90-minute cohort meetings
- Complete up to three hours of homework per month
Below are descriptions of the two Spring 2023 cohorts. If you are interested in participating in one of these cohorts, please complete your application by COB Friday, January 6.
Spring 2023 Healthy Start Fatherhood Cohort
The goal of the Fatherhood Cohort is to convene Healthy Start grantees to create shared best practices for involving, connecting and engaging fathers along the MCH continuum and achieving the goal of enrolling 100 fathers in the HS program. The Fatherhood Cohort will meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month from 1-2:30 p.m. ET (12-1:30 p.m. CT/10-11:30 a.m. PT). The cohort will run from January through May 2023 with meetings on 1/24, 2/28, 3/28, 4/25, and 5/23. To access the application, please click here.
Spring 2023 Healthy Start Fourth Trimester Cohort
The goal of the Fourth Trimester Cohort is to convene Healthy Start grantees to create shared best practices for supporting mothers, birthing people, and fathers/partners during the postpartum period, also known as the fourth trimester. The Fourth Trimester Cohort will meet on the fourth Monday of each month from 1-2:30 p.m. ET (12-1:30 p.m. CT/10-11:30 a.m. PT). The cohort will run from January through May 2023 with meetings on 1/23, 2/27, 3/27, 4/24, and 5/22. To access the application, please click here.
Again, the deadline to complete these applications is COB Friday, January 6. If you have any questions about the cohorts or application, please email healthystart@nichq.org.
Since Year 1 of this grant cycle, the Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) has hosted several Healthy Start (HS) cohorts each year. HS Cohorts provide a space and place for 20-25 HS grantees to come together to:
- Learn about what others are doing around a specific topic (e.g., Evaluation, Breastfeeding, CAN)
- Engage and collaborate with one another
- Document promising practices
- Co-create tools and resources for the broader HS community
- Connect with other HS staff across the country
- Lift up and spread successful practices
- Brainstorm solutions for common challenges
In the current iteration of cohorts, the TASC holds five cohort meetings over five months. To learn more about the structure of cohorts, participant expectations, and how cohorts differ from other TASC offerings, please view the Cohort Participant Guide here.
In Session Now: Fall 2022 Healthy Start Cohorts
The TASC is pleased to announce that the two fall 2022 Healthy Start cohorts – a Breastfeeding Cohort and a Community Engagement Cohort – are now in session. These cohorts will run from September 2022 through January 2023. Below are the goals of the two fall 2022 cohorts:
Breastfeeding Cohort
The goal of the Breastfeeding Cohort is to convene Healthy Start grantees to create shared best practices for promoting and supporting breastfeeding among Healthy Start consumers.
Community Engagement Cohort
The goal of the Community Engagement Cohort is to convene Healthy Start grantees to create shared best practices for connecting, engaging, and maintaining relationships with community partners.
Spring 2022 Cohorts
From January through May 2022, the Healthy Start TASC hosted four cohorts. The spring 2022 cohorts focused on four topics that aligned with the Healthy Start benchmarks and approaches, including Community Action Networks (CAN), Evaluation, Fatherhood, and Recruitment and Retention. The HS participants of each cohort worked together to select specific objectives to guide their work and created artifacts based on their discussions in the meetings and homework assignments in CoLab.
Click the images below to view the cohort artifacts:
