New Haven Healthy Start

New Haven Healthy Start provides a continuum of services to pregnant women, mothers, fathers, and their infants to ensure healthy birth outcomes.

Save Healthy Start

Do you have two minutes to help save pregnancy and postpartum services for tens of thousands of moms, dads and babies across the U.S.?

Our staff has spent more than two decades pouring its heart and soul into helping moms, dads and babies thrive through Healthy Start, the national program to end infant mortality. But now it is on the chopping block. And it’s not just us: over 115 sites serving 85,000+ moms, dads, babies nationwide are at risk. Your help means a lot.

CLICK HERE to email your representatives and ask them to protect Healthy Start (when the form asks for “letter topic," select "budget" for U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy; select "health" for U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro).

Why This Matters

  • The U.S. has the highest infant mortality rate of any high-income nation.
  • Healthy Start serves communities where that risk is at least 50% higher than the national average.
  • Infant mortality in the U.S. costs the nation an estimated $12 billion annually, driven by high medical expenses and lost productivity. However, the non-financial costs—including parental mental health challenges and long-term workforce impacts—are equally significant.

Ensuring the healthy birth of every child

Giving Babies a Healthy Start

New Haven Healthy Start (NHHS) helps ensure the birth of healthy babies with a continuum of services to pregnant women, recent mothers, fathers and their infants. Founded in 1997 as a program of The Foundation, NHHS is supported by a federal grant from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health.

Are you expecting a child? Are you a parent or guardian responsible for an infant younger than 18 months old?

Helping mothers deliver and raise healthy babies

For Pregnant Women and Mothers

We support families through a entire pregnancy and after the child is born. We provide a range of services including connections to medical and social services, breastfeeding support, parenting classes and more.

Helping dads be involved and engaged

For Fathers

We support fathers so they can overcome the barriers to building and maintaining healthy relationships with their children.

Helping Children and Families Thrive

For the Community

The NHHS Consortium provides a platform for the community to learn and understand conditions that impact family health. We invite community members to participate in discussions and activities to improve conditions that impact families and the services they receive. Everyone is welcome.

Meetings take place the third Wednesday of every other month (January, March, May, July, September, November) from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information or to join, contact New Haven Healthy Start Administrative Officer Cynthia Chan.

Read our brochure (in English and Spanish)

How can we help?

Please contact us with your questions about New Haven Healthy Start

Cynthia Chan

New Haven Healthy Start Administrative Officer

203-777-7086

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Rodney T. Moore

New Haven Healthy Start Fatherhood Coordinator

203-777-7085

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Natasha Ray, MS

New Haven Healthy Start Director

203-777-7087

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