What We Do

• Advocacy
  NHSA is firmly committed to serving as a leading voice in support of government policies and programs that serve disadvantaged pregnant women, babies and families.
• Healthy Start Leadership Training Institute
  The Healthy Start Leadership Training Institute (HSLTI) was initiated in 2007 to provide technical assistance, training and support to the Project Directors of the federally funded Healthy Start projects throughout the country.
• Infant Mortality Awareness Campaign
  Infant Mortality is a serious issue that affects our nation’s health. The National Healthy Start Association (NHSA) has developed a campaign, “Celebrate Day 366…Every Baby Deserves a Chance,” to celebrate babies living beyond the first year of life.
• Partnership to Eliminate Disparities
  In 2008, CityMatCH, AMCHP, and NHSA, with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation*, created the Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality, with an aim to decrease racial disparities in infant mortality in U.S. urban areas. The Infant Mortality and Racism ALC is the first project of the Partnership.
• Male Involvement
  Healthy Start projects over the years have consistently expressed a need to make Healthy Start sites more father-inclusive, by involving dads in program activities and in the lives of their children, and the promotion of responsible fatherhood with or without marriage.
• Spring Conference
  The 12th Annual Spring Conference themed, Healthy Start 20 Years and Beyond: Improving the Health of Families, was held March 6-9 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill.