Risk Screening

Healthy Start Screening is free and confidential. Two screening questionaires are offered:

• Prenatal screen for women
• Infant screen for newborns

The purpose is to indentify risks that could affect your pregnancy or your child’s first years. You may have heard about these screens at your first prenatal appointment or when you completed your child’s birth certificate.

Healthy Start encourages every woman to say “YES” to being screened by completing the form. ... more

What is screening? | Are you at risk?

Healthy Start can help!

Screening all pregnant women and newborns for health risks, identifying moms and babies at risk, and providing mothers and babies with coordinated services such as:

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To contact Healthy Start, please call 407-665-3278
All Healthy Start Services are provided through our contracted provider, the Seminole County Health Department.

Free Health Insurance!

Pregnant women without health insurance may now apply for a health insurance program known as MomCare with a one-page simple application form. Medicaid’s MomCare program is sponsored by the Florida Department of Health, the Agency for Health Care Administration, and the Department of Children and Families and is managed locally by the Seminole County Healthy Start Coalition.

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When Healthy Start noticed that pregnant women living in the Goldsboro section of Sanford were experiencing more problems with their pregnancies that women living elsewhere in Seminole county, Healthy Start partnered with the Seminole Gardens Apartments to open the Mother and Baby Center located right in the heart of the apartment complex.

The Mother and Baby Center at the Seminole Gardens Apartments provides Healthy Start and WIC (family food program) services to pregnant women and families with young children.

Contact 407-665-3278 to find out more about how to get help at the Center.

FIMR (pronounced feemur) stands for Fetal & Infant Mortality Review. The Seminole County Healthy Start Coalition sponsors the local project in Seminole County.

FIMR projects use research protocols developed by the American College of Obstetricians-Gynecologists to study fetal and infant deaths as they occur in a community. FIMR Case Review Teams are made up of individuals from different professions to bring different perspectives on understanding infant deaths. FIMR teams use this information to improve the community’s service delivery system and to develop innovative programs for the future.

For more information, or to get involved with FIMR, contact
Carmen Gonzalez

Education Now And Babies Later (ENABL)
Pre-Teens? Parents? Puberty? Wondering how to ensure your children have the best future possible? Teenage pregnancies have serious consequences for young people.

ENABL uses an abstinence-based curriculum to teach
6th graders in Seminole County Public Schools about the consequences of early sexual activity. ENABL helps teens by giving them information and skills to help manage their emerging sexual feelings. ENABL also teaches teens
how to resist the social and peer pressures about
becoming sexually involved.

More Information on ENABL | Contact the ENABL Program