APRIL 2022
ISSUE 2
In The Loop With
Healthy Start
We are Impact100
Grant Finalists!
For the 5th year, Impact100 Martin will be awarding over $300,000 in grant awards at their Grant Awards Celebration, and we have the chance to be awarded one of those $100,000 grants! This has been a huge goal of ours for the last few years, and if this grant is awarded to us, we will be that much closer to bringing life-changing maternal access to Martin County.

What we will be using the grant award for is still under wraps, but here's a little hint: vroom vroom!
The Impact100 Martin 2022 Grant Awards Celebration will be held at the Harbour Ridge Yacht & Country club on April 19th at 9:00AM.

Please click the link to register if you're interested in attending the awards ceremony.
We did it!
We are officially members of the National Diaper Bank Network! Stay tuned for more details!
Our Mission to Bring Awareness to Health Disparities
At Martin County Healthy Start, we aim to ensure every baby is born healthy in Martin County. This includes bringing awareness to and decreasing health disparities.

The week of April 11th-17th is Black Maternal Health Week.

Women of color, even in Martin County, are 3 - 5 times more likely to have a severe complication as a result of pregnancy than White women. Here at Healthy Start, we’re working on changing that.

On April 16th, we will be having a Community Baby Shower at the 10th Street Community Center from 10AM to 12PM. This event will be focused on expectant families, but all families are welcome. The overarching goal for this event is to raise awareness of Black Maternal Health, the disparities that exist, and how we as a community can close that health disparity gap. 

We welcome you and all you know to join us and enjoy the festivities!
SAVE THE DATE!
Join our General Coalition Meeting!
Date & time: Friday, April 29th from 10AM - 12PM
Location: 10th Street Community Center, 724 SE 10th St, Stuart, FL 34994

Program & Staffing Highlight
Community Doula Program with Margo Keane
We thrive in serving our birthing community and we want nothing more than our families to feel empowered and supported when giving birth. This includes families from all backgrounds regardless of their race, ethnicity, income or sexual orientation.

In order to achieve, we have decided to launch a Community Doula Program, which will be coordinated by Margo Keane.

What is a doula? A doula is person who is employed to provide guidance and support to a pregnant person before, during and after labor.

Margo will be recruiting people from our community, training them to be doulas, and pairing those doulas with pregnant people.

Interested in becoming a doula? Please send Margo an email at mkeane@mchealthystart.org or join an informational session.
Margo Keane, Community Doula Program Coordinator
Info session details below!
How you can help end diaper need
1 in 3 U.S. families experience diaper need.

We want to change that. Please visit our AmazonSmile charity list and consider donating if you feel led. We can never have enough wipes, size 5 and 6 diapers and size 3T-4T pull up!