Last year, more than 14,000 Hillsborough County citizens received services that helped them give birth to healthy, happy newborns. Behind these services stands the Children’s Board’s Healthy Births team which is focused on ensuring pregnant women and their infants have access to prenatal health care, reach full-term healthy births, and have a safe environment in which to raise their babies.
The Healthy Births team continually searches for partnership opportunities and support in the community so that:
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Alpha House Of Tampa, Inc.
201 S. Tampania Avenue, Tampa, FL 33609
http://www.alphahouseoftampa.org
813-875-2024
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Case Management Services for Homeless Adolescent Mothers and Babies
Who the Program Serves:
Adolescent residents and their babies who require out-of-home placement as well as adult residents
What the Program Does:
Alpha House of Tampa, the only licensed maternity home in Hillsborough County, helps pregnant and parenting women in crisis to break the cycle of poverty and abuse and create promising lives for themselves and their babies. Alpha House connects these women and their babies to self-sufficiency services including getting prenatal care, funds, social service benefits, well-baby care, and educational and employment opportunities. This service helps the women become self-sufficient mothers raising emotionally and socially healthy babies who are successful in school. The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County’s funding provides a case manager to offer in-depth case management services including parenting education. Alpha House works with Parents As Teachers, the school system and other trade institutions.
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Subcontractors: Parents as Teachers (Child Abuse Council, Inc.) |
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Drug Abuse Comprehensive Coordinating Office, Inc. (DACCO)
4422 E. Columbus Drive, Tampa, FL 33605
www.DACCO.org
813-384-4228
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Family Centered Substance Abuse Services (FCSAS)
Who the Program Serves:
Women with children who have substance abuse problems as well as women of child-bearing age facing issues such as poverty, unemployment, insufficient health/ mental health care, poor knowledge of the effects of substance abuse during pregnancy, and family disintegration due to substance abuse difficulties.
What the Program Does:
Combines child development screening, assessment, referral, outreach, family case management, intensive outpatient treatment services and day treatment to prevent and/or reduce the impact of substance abuse and promote stable family functioning. The program screens for both substance abuse and mental health problems for parents, providing intensive assessment and treatment to women and their children. Children attend child care while their families receive individualized, supportive case management services: housing, transportation and other wraparound assistance. Parenting education on child development and appropriate parent-child interaction is provided to women participating in the program.
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Subcontractors: Child Abuse Council, Inc., Centre for Women, Inc., (Children's Services), Dr. David Myers (Medical Services), Zero Exposure |
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Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, Inc. D/B/A
Gulf Coast Community Care
14041 Icot Boulevard, Clearwater, FL 33760-3702
www.gcjfs.org
727-479-1804
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Woman to Woman Program
Who the Program Serves:
Adolescent mothers/pregnant teens and their children
What the Program Does:
Provides mentoring and support services for adolescent mothers, pregnant teens and their families to help prevent later pregnancies. The program puts the pregnant teens in contact with prenatal care to improve their own health and their baby’s delivery, teach them about how babies develop, add to their parenting knowledge and skills, improve the teen mothers’ school attendance and grades, and strengthen family relationships.
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Subcontractors: Paid consultants from New York Youth at Risk and other Youth at Risk programs. |
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Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County, Inc.
2806 N. Armenia Avenue, Suite 100, Tampa, FL 33607
www.healthystartcoalition.org
813-233-2800
Safe Baby Campaign Website
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Healthy Families Hillsborough
Who the Program Serves:
Children birth to age five and their families residing in the following zip codes and communities: Riverview (33578, 33579), Ruskin (33570, 33598, 33534, 33569), Brandon (33510, 33511, 33619), North Tampa (33612, 33613), West Tampa (33610, 33605), Temple Terrace/Clairmel (33617, 33637), Town N’ Country (33614, 33615, 33634, 33624) and Sulphur Springs (33604, 33607)
What the Program Does:
Provides an intensive home visiting program for pregnant women and their newborns/infants designed to reduce child abuse/neglect, help parents create stable and nurturing home environments, encourage child health and development, help develop positive parent-child interactions, and help ensure that families’ social and medical needs are met. The program starts before or after a baby’s birth and families can continue to receive services until the newborn is five years old. Families who need the most intensive level receive weekly home visits from highly trained paraprofessionals lasting about two hours.
Subcontractors: Maternal Child Health Coalition, Inc. D/B/A Bright Beginnings, Children's Home, Inc., (Healthy Families home visiting services) St. Joseph's Children's Advocacy Center, (Healthy Families assessment services), University Community Hospital Foundation, Success 4 Kids & Families, Hillsborough County Health Department (HUG NICU screening), Cindy Collins (NICU family support), Mercury New Media (HUG data system maintenance)
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Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County, Inc.
2806 N. Armenia Avenue, Suite 100, Tampa, FL 33607
www.healthystartcoalition.org
813-233-2800
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Intensive Teen Pregnancy Program
Who the Program Serves:
Pregnant and parenting teens up to age 19 and up to one year after the birth of their child as identified by need in zip codes 33604, 33607, 33610, 33612, 33613, 33614, 33615, and 33617. The program has some flexibility to serve teens in other zip codes due to enrollment, retention and attrition.
What the Program Does:
Provides community-based, home-based and school-based visitation services to pregnant and parenting teens to improve the delivery experience for both mom and baby and prepare them with coaching in parenting skills and child development. This program encourages the teens to finish school and provides job training skills for those that receive ongoing care coordination.
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Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County, Inc.
2806 N. Armenia Avenue, Suite 100, Tampa, FL 33607
www.healthystartcoalition.org
813-233-2800
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Zero Exposure Partnership
Who the Program Serves:
All women of child-bearing age in Hillsborough County
What the Program Does:
Works with private obstetricians, gynecologists, community professionals and pediatricians to increase community awareness by expanding the public health message about the impact of substance abuse. Zero Exposure also provides pregnant women with education, support services and treatment referrals to help them have healthy babies. The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County’s funding builds on current efforts to identify needs and create new connections, referrals and linkages in the community approach to screening, assessment, referral, and treatment in order to improve positive birth outcomes.
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Maternal Child Health Coalition, Inc. D/B/A Bright Beginnings
203 N. Armenia Avenue, Suite 102, Tampa, FL 33609
www.brightbeginningshills.org
813-281-5535
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Bright Beginnings Prevention Program
Who the Program Serves:
Children ages birth to age 5 who have parents ages 15-19 (primarily Hispanic/Latino) in zip codes: 33619, 33534, 33569, 33570, 33572, 33573, and 33598
What the Program Does:
Promotes a strong, resilient foundation for children from birth to fiveyears of age who have teen parents, lowering the risk for poverty, poor education and health and physical abuse/neglect. The teen parents are trained in positive parenting. The program provides complete determination of needs and arranges, coordinates, monitors, evaluates, and advocates for a package of multiple services through intensive in-home family support and early childhood intervention services. Families are eligible for services for up to five years.
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Reach Up, Inc.
10500 University City Drive, Suite 100, Tampa, FL 33612
www.reachupincorporated.org
(813) 712-6300
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Closing the Gap in Infant Mortality Project
Who the Program Serves:
Minority women of child-bearing age, their partners and family, and the community at large
What the Program Does:
Helps the community work together to educate women and their families about healthy eating during pregnancy, baby spacing, infections in pregnant women, and gum disease. The program provides access to gum disease and stress/depression screenings, health education, outreach and training targeting risk factors and protective factors to reduce the number of infant deaths. This program also provides marketing campaigns, with new methods of advertising program services and general information about the racial disparity gap existing in infant mortality.
Subcontractors: Angella Tomlinson (Periodontal Disease Screenings), Fleda Mask Jackson, (Consulting/Training)
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