Genesee County Health Department

Better Life Through Better Health

Healthy Start Celebration

The Flint Healthy Start Consortium will host a celebration of program successes on Monday, June 11, at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, 1083 E. Stewart, Flint, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. Young ladies from the Healthy Start Initiative (African American adolescent girls) will present a creative and enriching program intended to convey how their participation in Healthy Start has influenced them.

Healthy Start took place in Flint Schools from 1998 through 2001. During this time, several hundred adolescent African American girls participated in two programs designed to increase life skills, delay pregnancy and reduce infant mortality rates. A third program included adolescent moms and was designed to increase skills, delay/reduce repeat pregnancies, and reduce infant mortality rates.

African American infant mortality rates and the incidence of low birth weights in Genesee County have continued to be much higher than those of other races, and are among the highest in the state. The Healthy Start initiative is part of a larger, comprehensive effort to reduce infant mortality rates and the incidence of low birth weights in Genesee County.

To register for the Celebration Event or to find out more about the Flint Healthy Start Initiative, call (810) 237-6166.

Release Date: June 6, 2000

Contact Person: Dawn Scharer

Genesee County Health Department

Phone: (810) 341-5239