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    • Mission & History
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    • Volunteer Executive Board
    • Annual Reports
    • Client Success Stories
    • FAQ
    • Contact
  • PROGRAMS
    • Healthy Start
    • Connect
    • Save My Life
    • MomCare
    • Fetal & Infant Mortality Review
  • COMMUNITY ACTION
    • Addiction Support and Pregnancy (ASAP)
    • Breastfeeding Advocates of Sarasota County
    • Breastfeeding Friendly Sarasota Project
    • Breastfeeding Peer Counselors
    • Clean Start
    • IMPLICIT: Interconception Care Model for Vulnerable Populations in Sarasota County
    • Pump Up Sarasota
    • Safe Sleep Sarasota Initiative
    • Substance Exposed Newborn Prevention & Protection
  • FOR MOMS
    • Can Healthy Start Help You?
    • Breastfeeding Support & Resources
    • Clean Start – Protecting Your Baby from Drugs and Alcohol
    • Family Planning
    • Getting Healthy Before You Get Pregnant
    • Help to Quit Smoking
    • Hurricane & Disaster Preparedness
    • Safe Sleep for Your Baby
    • Text4Baby
    • Think 39 Weeks!
    • Zika and Pregnancy
  • FOR PROVIDERS
    • Prenatal Risk Screen
    • Infant Risk Screen
    • Provider Education & Resources
    • Your Community Liaison
  • EVENTS
    • An Evening for Healthy Start 2023
      13th Annual Fundraiser
    • Past Events
      • 2022 Breakfast of Champions
      • Run Baby Run! 5k
      • An Evening for Healthy Start 2022
      • Fourth Annual Regional Summit 2022
      • Free Virtual Webinar: Multiple Layers of COVID-19 From Birth to Grief
      • 2021 Parenting Series
        • 2021 Parenting Series – The Sleepy Tot
        • 2021 Parenting Series – COVID 19 Vaccination
        • 2021 Parenting Series – HypnoBirthing
        • 2021 Parenting Series – Resilient Retreat
        • 2021 Parenting Series – Potty Training
        • 2021 Parenting Series – Sound Beginnings
        • 2021 Parenting Series – Childhood Stress
      • 2020 Regional Summit Lunch and Learn Series
      • An Evening for Healthy Start 2020
      • “Giving Sarasota a Healthy Start” Luncheon 2020
      • North Port Community Baby Shower & Preschool Expo
      • Sarasota Community Baby Shower
      • SECOND REGIONAL SUMMIT: Substance Use Disorder in the Pregnant Patient and Substance Exposed Neonate
      • (Virtual) Breakfast of Champions 2020
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Healthy Start Coalition Elects 2017- 2018 Executive Board, Hosts Keynote Speaker,  Presents Awards to Outstanding Community Members at Annual Meeting 

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Our Breakfast of Champions was a big success!

October 19, 2017 (Sarasota, FL) — On Thursday, October 19, 2017, The Healthy Start Coalition of Sarasota County, Inc. hosted its 2017 Annual Meeting at Van Wezel Bayside.

The Keynote speaker for the meeting was Jane Murphy, Executive Director of the Hillsborough County Healthy Start Coalition and President of the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions. Ms. Murphy has been instrumental in guiding Healthy Start Coalitions statewide in our focus to improve services to high-risk families, centering on maternal depression, interconception care, and developmental assessments. She discussed the upcoming changes to the Healthy Start Program and how what we do will improve the health and well-being of families, furthering our mission.

After the Keynote Presentation, the Healthy Start Coalition presented Annual Awards to several outstanding community members for their continued involvement and dedication to Healthy Start’s mission “to improve the health and well-being of pregnant women, infants, and young children”.

Annual Award Winners:

  • Lawton Chiles Award – Presented to an individual or partner whose contributions to prenatal and early child health in Sarasota County are characterized by exceptional commitment, wisdom, leadership and vision – Presented to Jane Murphy, Executive Director of the Hillsborough County Healthy Start Coalition and President of the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions.
  • Mission Award – Presented to an individual whose work with the Healthy Start Coalition has been of sustained, significant value in helping to achieve our mission – Presented to Dr. Pam Beitlich, Director of Women’s and Children’s Services at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
  • Board Member of the Year – Presented to a board member who has gone above and beyond to support the mission of the Healthy Start Coalition. Presented to Mary Dunn, Treasurer.
  • Business Partner of the Year – Presented to a business whose collaboration has been of contributing support of the Healthy Start Coalition through resources for service enhancement to pregnant women and young children. Presented to MySelfie Photobooth part of MyDJ Entertainment.
  • Media Partner of the Year -- Presented to the print or broadcast media coverage which best supported the health of pregnant women and young children in the last year. This year’s award winner was Tom Tryon of the Herald Tribune Media Group and Heidi Godman, host of Health Check with Heidi Godman on WSRQ.
  • Community Partner of the Year – Presented to an organization whose collaboration and contribution of support to the Healthy Start Coalition through resource for service enhancement to pregnant women and young children. This year the award was presented to the Junior League of Sarasota.
  • Volunteer of the Year – Recognizes a volunteer whose contributions or achievements have been of significant support to families during pregnancy and/or their child’s first three years. Presented to Stefany Holmes and Zubeda Remes.
  • Family of the Year – Presented to a Healthy Start family who has overcome odds to provide the healthiest scenarios for their children, by attending all recommended educational classes, and taking advantage of all Healthy Start services – Presented to Lisa Dailey.

The Healthy Start Coalition also elected new members to the 2017-2018 Volunteer Executive Board:

  • Chair – Dr. Washington Hill
  • Vice Chair – Dr. Pam Beitlich
  • Treasurer – Mary Dunn
  • Secretary – Amy Fulton
  • Past-President – Debra Boterf
  • At-Large – Erica Gregory
  • At- Large – Sarah Cloud
  • At- Large – Dr. Jina Foltz
  • At- Large – Christina Holmes
  • At-Large – Dr. Karin Stanton
  • At-Large – Tiffany Mangold
  • At-Large – Angela Baker
  • At-Large – Marilyn Lapidus
  • At-Large – Kerri Deatherage
  • At-Large – Melanie Fiscina
  • At-Large – Maggie Davenport
  • CYD STAR Student – Caroline Nosal
  • Ex-Officio - Shelley Rence
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