Supporting Healthy Start Performance Project (2019 – 2024)
Healthy Start is a community-based federal program seeking to eliminate disparities in infant mortality and perinatal outcomes by working to improve systems of community care in communities with infant mortality rates at least 1.5 times the U.S. national average.
Reducing disparities in birthing outcomes by investing in communities to improve health outcomes before, during, and after pregnancy.
Healthy Start is a community-based federal program seeking to eliminate disparities in infant mortality and perinatal outcomes by working to improve systems of community care in communities with infant mortality rates at least 1.5 times the U.S. national average. The Healthy Start, Healthy Start Enhanced and Catalyst for Infant Health Equity programs currently consists of 115 projects across the country, Puerto Rico, and Washington D.C., which support improved perinatal and family health outcomes in Healthy Start communities. In a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Heath Bureau’s (MCHB) Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services (DHSPS), the Healthy Start Technical Assistance & Support Center (TASC) at NICHQ is designing and delivering exceptional capacity building training and performance support to all 115 Healthy Start programs.
Who
Healthy Start Grantees
Our Role
The Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) provides training and technical assistance (TA) to support Healthy Start (HS), Healthy Start-Enhanced (HSE), and Catalyst for Infant Health Equity their projects’ ability to work with community partners to improve health and social service systems to reduce maternal and infant health disparities. The TASC’s technical assistance offerings focus on a range of topics including service delivery, maternal and infant health, father/partner engagement, community engagement, and social and structural determinants of health. The TASC works to enhance and strengthen the ability of grant recipients to implement strategies and programs that improve perinatal outcomes by increasing equitable access to quality community-based services. The TASC also works to advance the MCH health field building efforts that address structural and social determinants of health and increase the visibility of HS, HSE, and Catalyst grantees.
Funder
The project is funded through a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Heath Bureau (HRSA, MCHB).
Other Information
If you are interested in learning more about this project, please email: [email protected] or visit healthystart-tasc.org
Project Impact
The TASC is committed to supporting HS, HSE & Catalyst grantees in improving their programs to support maternal child health outcomes.
Project Impact
The TASC is committed to supporting HS, HSE & Catalyst grantees in improving their programs to support maternal child health outcomes.
Over the course of five years, the Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) at NICHQ provided training and technical assistance (TA) to support the Healthy Start (HS), Healthy Start-Enhanced (HSE), and Catalyst for Infant Health Equity (Catalyst) grantees in improving their service delivery, meeting outcome measures, and building their projects’ ability to work with community partners to improve health and social service systems to reduce maternal and infant health disparities. Between June 2019-May 2024, the TASC provided 411 group training and TA offerings and fulfilled individualized TA requests.
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the Supporting Healthy Start Performance Project (2019 – 2024) project or on related topics
