Healthy Start supports the needs of pregnant women, their babies, and families by
connecting them with a doctor and other services needed during pregnancy, after
delivery, and up to their baby's second birthday.
Healthy Start services include:
- Access to Prenatal and Pediatric health care
- Prenatal Classes & Parenting Classes
- Free Transportation
- Medicaid and All Kids Enrollment
- WIC Referral
- Family Planning
- Access to Mental Health & Counseling
- Health education
For more information on the Healthy Start program, please call 618-332-3509
The goal of Healthy Start is to improve birth outcomes by addressing issues of infant
mortality, low birth weight, and racial disparities in perinatal health. The program
strives to help women have a healthy, full-term pregnancy.
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Healthy Start Goals
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Healthy Start Core Services
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Reduce infant mortality
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Outreach
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Increase early entry into prenatal care
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Case Management
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Increase prenatal care utilization
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Health Education
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Reduce the number of low birth weight infants
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Interconception Care
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Depression Screening and Referral
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Healthy Start is federally funded from the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
National Healthy Start Association
www.healthystartassoc.org
HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration)
www.hrsa.gov
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
http://mchb.hrsa.gov/
The Ryan White team brings a range of experience and knowledge to people living
with, or affected by HIV/AIDS. The team aims to be sensitive, non-judgmental, and
supportive of all persons enrolled in the program regardless of age, gender, lifestyle,
religion or sexual orientation. Protecting confidentiality is important to the staff,
so services are designed to maintain privacy of program participants.
HIV Prevention Services
- HIV Counseling & Testing
- OraSure and OraQuick (20 minute) confidential HIV testing available
- Risk Reduction Counseling
- Community Outreach & Education
- HIV Prevention Presentations
- Free informational brochures & condoms available
Services for persons living with HIV/AIDS
- Medical services at multiple
- Locations
- Access to medications
- Case Management
- Transportation
- Referral Services
- Food/nutrition services
- Short-term rent/utilities
- Dental services
To contact your closest Ryan White Program in Southwestern Illinois, please
contact:
Division of Community Programs - East St. Louis, IL (618) 271 - 7313
Adult Care Center – Centreville, IL (618)
337 – 8153
Belleville Family Practice – Belleville,
IL (618) 233 – 5480
Koch Health Center – Granite City, IL (618)
452 – 3301
Windsor Health Center – East St. Louis,
IL (618) 274 – 9105
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program is made possible through the United States Department
of Health and Human Services.
http://hab.hrsa.gov/about/ryanwhite.htm
About Ryan White
Ryan White courageously fought AIDS-related discrimination and helped educate the
Nation about HIV/AIDS. Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13. He and his
mother Jeanne White Ginder fought for his right to attend school, gaining international
attention as a voice of reason about HIV/AIDS. At the age of 18, Ryan White died
on April 8, 1990, just months before Congress passed the AIDS bill that bears his
name – the Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency) Act. The legislation
has been reauthorized four times since – in 1996, 2000, 2006, and 2009 – and is
now called the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. (www.hrsa.gov)